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Disability Determination Process Small Grant Program (DDP) Grant # IDD11000001 PRI will accept applications for the first cycle of stipends through January 6, 2012 (original deadline was November 15, 2011). PRI expects to make awards in February 2012, and the stipends will cover the period February 2012 through February 2013. For further information, you may contact the PRI representative using the following email address: ddp@policyresearchinc.org
Consultative Exam (CE) Baseline Study A CE is a physical or mental examination performed by a treating source or other medical source when additional information (e.g., clinical findings, laboratory tests, diagnosis, and prognosis) is needed to make a disability determination. The CE Baseline Study analyzed and documented the quality of CEs used in the initial level of disability determination; assessed if CEs were requested in compliance with SSA regulations; and established a baseline for CE quality. This study found that a majority of the CE reports reviewed contained sufficient clinical detail to enable the DDS to make an informed claim decision. CE providers who were identified as being Board Certified or Board Eligible provided higher rated CEs than providers without such documentation. There were variations in the rated quality of CEs by State. Also the vast majority of the CEs requested were considered to be appropriate. There were important limitations to this study. The study used the electronic folder for review. At the time of the study, an electronic folder for the initial claim record was not available in sufficient numbers in all States. Comparisons could only be made between States with electronic folders, and the cases were selected in a non-scientific manner, thus limiting the ability to generalize the study findings. The study also did not include CEs obtained at the hearings level. At the time of the study electronic folders were not available at that level. The final report was received in 2008. A follow-up study on the topic is planned. A copy of the 2008 final report is available here:
The National Survey of SSI Children and Families (NSCF) The NSCF collected data on the health status, functional limitations, health care utilization, health insurance coverage, receipt of services, SSI experience, and socioeconomic status of the households of over 3,000 children who were receiving, had received, or were applying for SSI. The study was limited to the non-institutionalized population in the contiguous United States. Data collection began July 2001 and concluded July 2002. For more information, continue to the NSCF page.
The Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-170) requires the Commissioner of Social Security to provide for independent evaluations to assess the effectiveness of the Ticket to Work program and submit reports to Congress with findings and recommendations to improve the program. The law required that we provide reports on the evaluation to Congress through 2007. In May 2003, we awarded two five-year contracts to Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. to conduct the evaluation of the Ticket to Work program. The first contract focuses on data development, qualitative data collection, and implementation of the comprehensive evaluation analyses. The second contract implements a survey of beneficiaries. The agency significantly modified the Ticket to Work program in 2008. We extended the evaluation of the Ticket to Work program to address these changes. We transmitted the project's first, second, and third evaluation reports to Congress. The Fourth TTW Evaluation Report and the ten papers that comprise the Fifth TTW Evaluation Report are complete. Papers from the Sixth TTW Evaluation Report are available, and we will post additional papers of the Sixth and Seventh TTW Evaluation Report as they are completed. The annual National Beneficiary Surveys (NBS) for 2004 through 2007 are complete and we fielded an additional round after the new regulations went into effect in 2008. The seventh evaluation report will be the final evaluation report. The First WIPA Evaluation Report, the Second WIPA Evaluation Report, and the Third WIPA Evaluation Report Part 1 and Third WIPA Evaluation Report Part 2 are included in the Ticket to Work Evaluation reports. For more information, continue to Ticket to Work Evaluation Reports.
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