2017 Annual Report of the SSI Program

D. HISTORICAL REDETERMINATION AND MEDICAL CONTINUING DISABILITY REVIEW DATA

1. Redeterminations

Redeterminations are reviews of all of the nonmedical factors of eligibility to determine whether a recipient is still eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and still receiving the correct payment amount. There are two types of redeterminations: scheduled and unscheduled. All recipients are subject to periodic scheduling for a redetermination. Every year the Social Security Administration (SSA) schedules redeterminations for the cases most likely to have payment error, but the agency can also schedule reviews for cases unlikely to have payment error. SSA completes unscheduled redeterminations on an as-needed basis when recipients report, or we discover, certain changes in circumstances that could affect the continuing SSI payment amount. The numbers of redeterminations completed fluctuate from year to year due to variation in: (1) the numbers of unscheduled redeterminations completed; and (2) the numbers of scheduled redeterminations that we are able to complete during the fiscal year because of limitations on administrative resources and the impact of other workload requirements on the field offices. Redeterminations that we cannot complete in the scheduled fiscal year carry over into the next fiscal year.

Between scheduled redeterminations, SSA uses the limited issue process to detect situations that have the potential to affect the continuing eligibility of SSI recipients and SSI payment amounts. SSA conducts periodic computer matches between its own systems and the systems of other Federal and State agencies to determine if the income and resources information on SSI recipients’ records conflicts with data that we obtain from the other systems. We post an indicator to the individual’s Supplemental Security Record¹ when a match detects conflicting information. We select these limited issue cases for field office review of the issues for which we posted indicators. Beginning in fiscal year 2007, redetermination completions reported in SSA’s Agency Financial Report² included limited issue completions.

Table V.D1 provides historical data on numbers of redeterminations and limited issues by fiscal year.

 

 

 

Table V.D1.—SSI Redeterminations^a and Limited Issues Completed, Fiscal Years 1986‑2016 

[In thousands]

	Numbers of completions
Fiscal year	Redeterminations	Limited issues	Total
1986	2,278	b	b
1987	2,244	b	b
1988	1,997	b	b
1989	2,226	b	b
1990	2,103	b	b
1991	2,138	b	b
1992	2,321	b	b
1993	2,223	b	b
1994	c  1,900	b	b
1995	d 1,597	b	b
1996	1,763	b	b
1997	1,773	b	b
1998	1,853	b	b
1999	2,122	751	2,873
2000	2,182	582	2,764
2001	2,316	589	2,905
2002	2,311	582	2,894
2003	2,450	472	2,921
2004	2,279	248	2,527
2005	e 1,725	737	2,462
2006	e1,071	348	1,418
2007	e 692	346	1,039
2008	e 900	321	1,221
2009	e1,390	341	1,731
2010	2,248	218	2,466
2011	f2,223	f234	f2,457
2012	2,408	216	2,624
2013	2,437	197	2,634
2014	2,447	181	2,628
2015	2,084	183	2,267
2016	2,324	180	2,505

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a

Effective fiscal year 2007, total redeterminations reported by SSA include limited issues.

b

Data not available.

c

Decrease in number of redeterminations completed in fiscal year 1994 due to low-error profile redeterminations not being completed from January through September 1994.

d

Effective fiscal year 1995, we selected approximately 200,000 fewer redeterminations annually due to a change from a 3‑year to a 6-year redetermination cycle for low-error profile cases.

e

We selected fewer redeterminations in fiscal years 2005-09 due to limitations on administrative funding.

f

Includes redeterminations completed during the 53 operating weeks in fiscal year 2011.

Note: Totals do not necessarily equal the sums of rounded components.

2. Medical Continuing Disability Reviews

Following enactment of the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980, section 221(i) of the Social Security Act generally requires SSA to review the continuing eligibility of Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) disabled beneficiaries at least every 3 years. No legislation required the same review process for disabled SSI recipients at that time. Although the Committee on Finance of the Senate stated in its report on this legislation that the same medical continuing disability review (CDR) procedures should apply to both the OASDI and SSI programs, no new legislation amended Title XVI to accomplish this. Section 1614(a)(4) of the Act gives SSA discretionary authority to conduct periodic CDRs on SSI recipients. On September 28, 1994, SSA issued a Federal Register notice that periodic SSI CDRs would begin on October 1, 1994. In 1994 and again in 1996 Congress enacted new legislation adding some mandates for CDRs under the SSI program.

Public Law 103-296 required SSA to conduct CDRs on a minimum of 100,000 SSI recipients during each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998. In addition, during the same period, the law required SSA to redetermine the eligibility of at least one-third of all SSI child recipients who reached age 18 after April 1995 within 1 year of attainment of age 18. Such redeterminations for persons turning age 18 could count toward the 100,000 CDRs required by the law.

Public Law 104-193 required SSA to redetermine the eligibility of all SSI child recipients who attain age 18 based on the adult initial eligibility criteria. This law also required that SSA perform a CDR:

•	At least once every 3 years for SSI recipients under age 18 who are eligible by reason of an impairment that is likely to improve; and

•	Not later than 12 months after birth for recipients whose low birth weight is a contributing factor material to the determination of their disability.

Public Law 105-33 provided SSA some additional flexibility in the scheduling of these categories of CDRs.

Beginning in 1993, SSA developed a screening process for OASDI cases scheduled for a CDR in order to handle the large CDR workload mandated by these various provisions. The screening process included a mailer questionnaire for selected cases. In 1996, SSA extended this profiling process to SSI adults who were scheduled for a CDR. In fiscal year 2016, we deferred full medical reviews for 455,727 adult SSI recipients scheduled for a CDR as a result of the screening process.

In 2007, SSA implemented a streamlined failure to cooperate (FTC) process for medical CDRs. Under this process, recipients who fail to comply with the field office requests for information necessary for processing their medical CDRs have their benefits suspended. After 12 consecutive months of suspension for noncompliance, SSA terminates their eligibility for disability benefits. SSA initially terminated 4,452 centrally initiated medical CDRs involving SSI recipients in fiscal year 2016 as a result of the streamlined FTC process. A more detailed discussion of CDRs can be found in the Annual Report of Medical Continuing Disability Reviews.³

For individuals who receive both OASDI and SSI benefits on the basis of their own disability, SSA initiates CDRs as Title II CDRs, and the results of the review affect eligibility for benefits under both programs.⁴ Table V.D2 presents the numbers of centrally initiated periodic medical CDRs of SSI recipients we performed under Titles II and XVI since 1993. Tables V.D3 and V.D4 present the latest available detailed results⁵ on CDRs of SSI recipients performed in the most recent 15 years.⁶ These tables include only cases for which we conducted a full medical review. In particular, they do not include:

•	Cases for which the individual completed a mailer but for which we deferred a full medical review;

•	Administrative closures — cases for which we curtail development for technical reasons;

•	Streamlined FTC terminations;

•	CDRs initiated as the result of work activity on the part of the beneficiary/recipient; and

•	Miscellaneous other CDRs processed by the State disability determination services (DDS) but not as part of the normal CDR scheduling process (e.g., voluntary and third-party reports of medical improvement, post-transplant end-stage renal disease cases, and rehabilitation reports).

In contrast with the allowance data presented in section V.C, we tabulate the CDR data on a cohort basis by the date of initial CDR decision.

Table V.D2.—SSI Continuing Disability Full Medical Reviews ^a by Year of Initial Decision, Fiscal Years 1993-2016

[In thousands]

Fiscal year of initial DDS decision	Disabled adults			Disabled children				Total full medical reviews
	Reviews of concurrent Title II/XVI cases initiated under Title II	Title XVI initiated reviews	Total SSI adult reviews	Reviews of low-birth-weight children	Redeterminations at age 18	All other reviews of SSI disabled children	Total SSI children reviews
1993	1	—	1	—	—	—	—	1
1994	11	—	11	1	—	—	1	12
1995	17	4	21	4	b	4	8	29
1996	27	55	82	6	13	1	19	101
1997	51	70	121	7	49	b	56	177
1998	81	75	156	18	41	91	150	306
1999	81	140	221	10	50	183	243	464
2000	106	173	279	10	52	141	203	482
2001	110	144	254	9	49	96	154	408
2002	104	173	276	13	55	164	231	508
2003	72	213	285	7	54	127	189	474
2004	85	221	306	12	53	103	169	474
2005	81	110	191	14	55	61	130	321
2006	72	41	112	8	41	19	68	181
2007	26	18	45	3	71	4	79	124
2008	40	19	59	5	69	5	79	138
2009	42	29	71	13	101	11	124	195
2010	40	35	74	22	87	17	126	201
2011	38	33	71	19	93	25	138	209
2012	51	46	97	16	82	65	163	260
2013	52	35	87	19	92	53	164	251
2014	62	50	112	18	86	89	193	305
2015	74	157	231	14	84	224	322	554
2016	75	180	255	15	81	261	357	612

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a

Excludes reviews conducted outside of the centrally initiated CDR scheduling process.

b

Fewer than 500.

Note: Totals do not necessarily equal the sums of rounded components.

 

Table V.D3.—SSI Disabled Adult Reviews: Disposition ^a of Medical Continuing Disability Reviews by Year of
Initial Decision and Level of Decision, Fiscal Years 2002-2016

Fiscal year of initial DDS decisionb	Initial decisions
	Total initial DDS decisions	Continuations		Cessations		Appeals to reconsideration
		Number	Percentc	Number	Percentc	Number	Percentd
Reviews of concurrent Title II/XVI cases initiated under Title II
2002	103,947	92,069	88.6	11,878	11.4	7,087	59.7
2003	72,175	63,021	87.3	9,154	12.7	5,443	59.5
2004	84,622	75,047	88.7	9,575	11.3	5,891	61.5
2005	80,597	70,687	87.7	9,910	12.3	5,927	59.8
2006	71,825	63,789	88.8	8,036	11.2	4,776	59.4
2007	26,469	22,893	86.5	3,576	13.5	2,155	60.3
2008	40,045	35,891	89.6	4,154	10.4	2,659	64.0
2009	41,609	38,238	91.9	3,371	8.1	2,210	65.6
2010	39,908	35,879	89.9	4,029	10.1	2,646	65.7
2011	37,799	33,194	87.8	4,605	12.2	2,947	64.0
2012	50,715	43,409	85.6	7,306	14.4	4,803	65.7
2013	51,844	44,924	86.7	6,920	13.3	4,870	70.4
2014	62,400	53,478	85.7	8,922	14.3	6,492	72.8
2015	74,422	61,183	82.2	13,239	17.8	9,494	71.7
2016	74,680	62,151	83.2	12,529	16.8	8,711	69.5
Title XVI initiated reviews
2002	172,527	150,837	87.4	21,690	12.6	13,314	61.4
2003	213,212	191,061	89.6	22,151	10.4	14,665	66.2
2004	221,129	199,938	90.4	21,191	9.6	14,627	69.0
2005	110,072	97,330	88.4	12,742	11.6	8,125	63.8
2006	40,605	35,957	88.6	4,648	11.4	2,853	61.4
2007	18,172	16,006	88.1	2,166	11.9	1,426	65.8
2008	18,933	17,049	90.0	1,884	10.0	1,267	67.3
2009	29,137	27,233	93.5	1,904	6.5	1,376	72.3
2010	34,575	31,766	91.9	2,809	8.1	1,984	70.6
2011	33,460	30,291	90.5	3,169	9.5	2,191	69.1
2012	46,439	39,954	86.0	6,485	14.0	4,339	66.9
2013	34,941	30,850	88.3	4,091	11.7	2,865	70.0
2014	49,810	43,552	87.4	6,258	12.6	4,566	73.0
2015	156,987	132,651	84.5	24,336	15.5	17,470	71.8
2016	179,901	152,339	84.7	27,562	15.3	18,672	67.7
Total reviews, SSI disabled adults
2002	276,474	242,906	87.9	33,568	12.1	20,401	60.8
2003	285,387	254,082	89.0	31,305	11.0	20,108	64.2
2004	305,751	274,985	89.9	30,766	10.1	20,518	66.7
2005	190,669	168,017	88.1	22,652	11.9	14,052	62.0
2006	112,430	99,746	88.7	12,684	11.3	7,629	60.1
2007	44,641	38,899	87.1	5,742	12.9	3,581	62.4
2008	58,978	52,940	89.8	6,038	10.2	3,926	65.0
2009	70,746	65,471	92.5	5,275	7.5	3,586	68.0
2010	74,483	67,645	90.8	6,838	9.2	4,630	67.7
2011	71,259	63,485	89.1	7,774	10.9	5,138	66.1
2012	97,154	83,363	85.8	13,791	14.2	9,142	66.3
2013	86,785	75,774	87.3	11,011	12.7	7,735	70.2
2014	112,210	97,030	86.5	15,180	13.5	11,058	72.8
2015	231,409	193,834	83.8	37,575	16.2	26,964	71.8
2016	254,581	214,490	84.3	40,091	15.7	27,383	68.3

 

Fiscal year of initial DDS decisionb	Reconsiderations						Appeals beyond reconsideratione
	Pending	Continuations		Cessations	Appeals  to  beyond  reconsideration		Pending	Continuations		Cessations
		Number	Percentc		Numberf	Percentd		Number	Percent
Reviews of concurrent Title II/XVI cases initiated under Title II
2002	—	4,787	67.5	2,300	1,451	63.1	—	594	40.9	857
2003	—	3,575	65.7	1,868	1,179	63.1	—	482	40.9	697
2004	—	3,779	64.1	2,112	1,413	66.9	—	594	42.0	819
2005	—	3,827	64.6	2,100	1,492	71.0	—	653	43.8	839
2006	—	3,038	63.6	1,738	1,279	73.6	—	571	44.6	708
2007	—	1,461	67.8	694	531	76.5	—	238	44.8	293
2008	—	1,789	67.3	870	679	78.0	—	288	42.4	391
2009	—	1,510	68.3	700	561	80.1	—	208	37.1	353
2010	1	1,759	66.5	886	680	76.7	—	236	34.7	444
2011	—	1,770	60.1	1,177	897	76.2	—	260	29.0	637
2012	—	2,882	60.0	1,921	1,479	77.0	5	431	29.2	1,043
2013	5	2,944	60.5	1,921	1,388	72.3	114	344	27.0	930
2014	42	3,871	60.0	2,579	1,868	72.4	532	349	26.1	987
2015	523	5,441	60.7	3,530	2,329	66.0	1,700	147	23.4	482
2016	3,301	3,792	70.1	1,618	836	51.7	796	8	20.0	32
Title XVI initiated reviews
2002	—	8,160	61.3	5,154	3,323	64.5	—	1,110	33.4	2,213
2003	—	9,656	65.8	5,009	3,335	66.6	—	1,232	36.9	2,103
2004	—	9,404	64.3	5,223	3,743	71.7	—	1,455	38.9	2,288
2005	—	5,233	64.4	2,892	2,052	71.0	—	772	37.6	1,280
2006	—	1,805	63.3	1,048	746	71.2	—	284	38.1	462
2007	—	963	67.5	463	342	73.9	—	152	44.4	190
2008	—	866	68.4	401	302	75.3	—	121	40.1	181
2009	—	995	72.3	381	284	74.5	—	101	35.6	183
2010	—	1,416	71.4	568	456	80.3	—	158	34.6	298
2011	—	1,498	68.4	693	554	79.9	—	184	33.2	370
2012	1	2,686	61.9	1,652	1,277	77.3	7	396	31.2	874
2013	6	1,784	62.4	1,075	788	73.3	58	197	27.0	533
2014	50	2,696	59.7	1,820	1,303	71.6	458	221	26.2	624
2015	1,009	9,723	59.1	6,738	4,408	65.4	3,110	302	23.3	996
2016	8,156	7,617	72.4	2,899	1,462	50.4	1,395	5	7.5	62
Total reviews, SSI disabled adults
2002	—	12,947	63.5	7,454	4,774	64.0	—	1,704	35.7	3,070
2003	—	13,231	65.8	6,877	4,514	65.6	—	1,714	38.0	2,800
2004	—	13,183	64.3	7,335	5,156	70.3	—	2,049	39.7	3,107
2005	—	9,060	64.5	4,992	3,544	71.0	—	1,425	40.2	2,119
2006	—	4,843	63.5	2,786	2,025	72.7	—	855	42.2	1,170
2007	—	2,424	67.7	1,157	873	75.5	—	390	44.7	483
2008	—	2,655	67.6	1,271	981	77.2	—	409	41.7	572
2009	—	2,505	69.9	1,081	845	78.2	—	309	36.6	536
2010	1	3,175	68.6	1,454	1,136	78.1	—	394	34.7	742
2011	—	3,268	63.6	1,870	1,451	77.6	—	444	30.6	1,007
2012	1	5,568	60.9	3,573	2,756	77.1	12	827	30.1	1,917
2013	11	4,728	61.2	2,996	2,176	72.6	172	541	27.0	1,463
2014	92	6,567	59.9	4,399	3,171	72.1	990	570	26.1	1,611
2015	1,532	15,164	59.6	10,268	6,737	65.6	4,810	449	23.3	1,478
2016	11,457	11,409	71.6	4,517	2,298	50.9	2,191	13	12.1	94

Fiscal year of initial DDS decisionb	Total initial decisions	Selected summary case information by decision status as of February 2017
		Numbers of cases			Numbers as a percentage of total initial decisions
		Continuations	Cessations pending an appeal decision	Cessations with no appeal pending	Continuations	Cessations pending an appeal decision	Cessations with no appeal pending
Reviews of concurrent Title II/XVI cases initiated under Title II
2002	103,947	97,450	—	6,497	93.7	—	6.3
2003	72,175	67,078	—	5,097	92.9	—	7.1
2004	84,622	79,420	—	5,202	93.9	—	6.1
2005	80,597	75,167	—	5,430	93.3	—	6.7
2006	71,825	67,398	—	4,427	93.8	—	6.2
2007	26,469	24,592	—	1,877	92.9	—	7.1
2008	40,045	37,968	—	2,077	94.8	—	5.2
2009	41,609	39,956	—	1,653	96.0	—	4.0
2010	39,908	37,874	1	2,033	94.9	g	5.1
2011	37,799	35,224	—	2,575	93.2	—	6.8
2012	50,715	46,722	5	3,988	92.1	g	7.9
2013	51,844	48,212	119	3,513	93.0	0.2	6.8
2014	62,400	57,698	574	4,128	92.5	.9	6.6
2015	74,422	66,771	2,223	5,428	89.7	3.0	7.3
2016	74,680	65,951	4,097	4,632	88.3	5.5	6.2
Title XVI initiated reviews
2002	172,527	160,107	—	12,420	92.8	—	7.2
2003	213,212	201,949	—	11,263	94.7	—	5.3
2004	221,129	210,797	—	10,332	95.3	—	4.7
2005	110,072	103,335	—	6,737	93.9	—	6.1
2006	40,605	38,046	—	2,559	93.7	—	6.3
2007	18,172	17,121	—	1,051	94.2	—	5.8
2008	18,933	18,036	—	897	95.3	—	4.7
2009	29,137	28,329	—	808	97.2	—	2.8
2010	34,575	33,340	—	1,235	96.4	—	3.6
2011	33,460	31,973	—	1,487	95.6	—	4.4
2012	46,439	43,036	8	3,395	92.7	g	7.3
2013	34,941	32,831	64	2,046	94.0	.2	5.9
2014	49,810	46,469	508	2,833	93.3	1.0	5.7
2015	156,987	142,676	4,119	10,192	90.9	2.6	6.5
2016	179,901	159,961	9,551	10,389	88.9	5.3	5.8
Total reviews, SSI disabled adults
2002	276,474	257,557	—	18,917	93.2	—	6.8
2003	285,387	269,027	—	16,360	94.3	—	5.7
2004	305,751	290,217	—	15,534	94.9	—	5.1
2005	190,669	178,502	—	12,167	93.6	—	6.4
2006	112,430	105,444	—	6,986	93.8	—	6.2
2007	44,641	41,713	—	2,928	93.4	—	6.6
2008	58,978	56,004	—	2,974	95.0	—	5.0
2009	70,746	68,285	—	2,461	96.5	—	3.5
2010	74,483	71,214	1	3,268	95.6	g	4.4
2011	71,259	67,197	—	4,062	94.3	—	5.7
2012	97,154	89,758	13	7,383	92.4	g	7.6
2013	86,785	81,043	183	5,559	93.4	.2	6.4
2014	112,210	104,167	1,082	6,961	92.8	1.0	6.2
2015	231,409	209,447	6,342	15,620	90.5	2.7	6.7
2016	254,581	225,912	13,648	15,021	88.7	5.4	5.9

^a  Data reflect results as of February 2017. The ultimate numbers of continuations and cessations are subject to change until all appeals are final.

^b  For years prior to 2002, see the most recent Annual Report of Continuing Disability Reviews.

^c  Percentage of decisions at this level.

^d  Percentage of cessations at this level appealed to next level.

^e  We do not reflect the status and disposition of cases in the Federal courts here. However, we have included information on the status and disposition at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) for cases remanded to us by the courts. The excluded experience in the Federal courts has a minimal impact on the number of continuations.

^f  Number of persons appealing beyond the reconsideration level.

^g  Less than 0.05 percent.

 

Table V.D4.—SSI Disabled Child Reviews: Disposition ^a of Medical Continuing Disability Reviews by Year of
Initial Decision and Level of Decision, Fiscal Years 2002-2016

Fiscal year of initial DDS decisionb	Initial decisions
	Total initial DDS decisions	Continuations		Cessations		Appeals to reconsideration
		Number	Percentc	Number	Percentc	Number	Percentd
Reviews of low-birth-weight children
2002	12,732	5,869	46.1	6,863	53.9	1,953	28.5
2003	7,283	3,516	48.3	3,767	51.7	1,026	27.2
2004	12,060	6,075	50.4	5,985	49.6	1,782	29.8
2005	13,710	6,540	47.7	7,170	52.3	1,995	27.8
2006	8,303	4,030	48.5	4,273	51.5	1,229	28.8
2007	3,175	1,368	43.1	1,807	56.9	510	28.2
2008	5,272	2,231	42.3	3,041	57.7	924	30.4
2009	12,511	5,741	45.9	6,770	54.1	2,092	30.9
2010	22,396	9,048	40.4	13,348	59.6	4,425	33.2
2011	19,359	7,608	39.3	11,751	60.7	3,794	32.3
2012	16,416	6,487	39.5	9,929	60.5	3,020	30.4
2013	19,299	7,672	39.8	11,627	60.2	3,948	34.0
2014	18,126	7,174	39.6	10,952	60.4	3,922	35.8
2015	14,321	5,840	40.8	8,481	59.2	3,007	35.5
2016	15,283	6,403	41.9	8,880	58.1	2,903	32.7
Redeterminations at age 18
2002	54,947	32,388	58.9	22,559	41.1	11,549	51.2
2003	53,905	31,862	59.1	22,043	40.9	11,742	53.3
2004	53,232	31,890	59.9	21,342	40.1	11,585	54.3
2005	55,331	31,434	56.8	23,897	43.2	12,403	51.9
2006	40,640	21,796	53.6	18,844	46.4	9,340	49.6
2007	71,359	36,339	50.9	35,020	49.1	17,773	50.8
2008	69,430	34,547	49.8	34,883	50.2	17,650	50.6
2009	100,986	51,712	51.2	49,274	48.8	27,205	55.2
2010	87,310	41,545	47.6	45,765	52.4	24,842	54.3
2011	93,256	42,772	45.9	50,484	54.1	26,498	52.5
2012	81,568	36,585	44.9	44,983	55.1	22,869	50.8
2013	91,519	40,507	44.3	51,012	55.7	27,540	54.0
2014	85,708	37,022	43.2	48,686	56.8	26,499	54.4
2015	84,499	36,463	43.2	48,036	56.8	25,162	52.4
2016	81,025	34,924	43.1	46,101	56.9	22,826	49.5
All other reviews of SSI disabled children
2002	163,768	130,434	79.6	33,334	20.4	17,888	53.7
2003	127,444	100,522	78.9	26,922	21.1	14,876	55.3
2004	103,437	80,748	78.1	22,689	21.9	12,852	56.6
2005	61,387	45,597	74.3	15,790	25.7	8,400	53.2
2006	19,384	14,428	74.4	4,956	25.6	2,591	52.3
2007	4,440	3,161	71.2	1,279	28.8	668	52.2
2008	4,707	3,473	73.8	1,234	26.2	671	54.4
2009	10,637	8,355	78.5	2,282	21.5	1,200	52.6
2010	16,677	12,501	75.0	4,176	25.0	2,143	51.3
2011	25,166	17,157	68.2	8,009	31.8	3,932	49.1
2012	64,834	41,269	63.7	23,565	36.3	12,308	52.2
2013	52,998	33,760	63.7	19,238	36.3	10,549	54.8
2014	88,993	57,060	64.1	31,933	35.9	18,949	59.3
2015	223,607	150,118	67.1	73,489	32.9	43,113	58.7
2016	261,185	183,221	70.1	77,964	29.9	44,327	56.9
Total reviews, SSI disabled children
2002	231,447	168,691	72.9	62,756	27.1	31,390	50.0
2003	188,632	135,900	72.0	52,732	28.0	27,644	52.4
2004	168,729	118,713	70.4	50,016	29.6	26,219	52.4
2005	130,428	83,571	64.1	46,857	35.9	22,798	48.7
2006	68,327	40,254	58.9	28,073	41.1	13,160	46.9
2007	78,974	40,868	51.7	38,106	48.3	18,951	49.7
2008	79,409	40,251	50.7	39,158	49.3	19,245	49.1
2009	124,134	65,808	53.0	58,326	47.0	30,497	52.3
2010	126,383	63,094	49.9	63,289	50.1	31,410	49.6
2011	137,781	67,537	49.0	70,244	51.0	34,224	48.7
2012	162,818	84,341	51.8	78,477	48.2	38,197	48.7
2013	163,816	81,939	50.0	81,877	50.0	42,037	51.3
2014	192,827	101,256	52.5	91,571	47.5	49,370	53.9
2015	322,427	192,421	59.7	130,006	40.3	71,282	54.8
2016	357,493	224,548	62.8	132,945	37.2	70,056	52.7

Fiscal year of initial DDS decisionb	Reconsiderations						Appeals beyond reconsideratione
	Pending	Continuations		Cessations	Appeals  to  beyond  reconsideration		Pending	Continuations		Cessations
		Number	Percentc		Numberf	Percentd		Number	Percent
Reviews of low-birth-weight children
2002	—	698	35.7	1,255	549	43.7	—	112	20.4	437
2003	—	364	35.5	662	301	45.5	—	60	19.9	241
2004	—	643	36.1	1,139	554	48.6	—	84	15.2	470
2005	—	702	35.2	1,293	626	48.4	—	104	16.6	522
2006	—	421	34.3	808	415	51.4	—	78	18.8	337
2007	—	173	33.9	337	189	56.1	—	38	20.1	151
2008	—	264	28.6	660	361	54.7	—	64	17.7	297
2009	—	592	28.3	1,500	869	57.9	—	155	17.8	714
2010	—	1,190	26.9	3,235	1,884	58.2	—	283	15.0	1,601
2011	1	1,068	28.2	2,725	1,679	61.6	—	233	13.9	1,446
2012	—	868	28.7	2,152	1,222	56.8	13	155	12.8	1,054
2013	7	1,095	27.8	2,846	1,557	54.7	167	188	13.5	1,202
2014	20	1,165	29.9	2,737	1,382	50.5	508	97	11.1	777
2015	190	884	31.4	1,933	878	45.4	673	23	11.2	182
2016	1,345	670	43.0	888	336	37.8	300	3	8.3	33
Redeterminations at age 18
2002	—	3,819	33.1	7,730	4,125	53.4	—	1,100	26.7	3,025
2003	—	3,818	32.5	7,924	4,295	54.2	—	1,146	26.7	3,149
2004	—	3,531	30.5	8,054	4,646	57.7	—	1,298	27.9	3,348
2005	—	3,756	30.3	8,647	5,135	59.4	—	1,436	28.0	3,699
2006	—	2,581	27.6	6,759	4,130	61.1	—	1,220	29.5	2,910
2007	—	4,793	27.0	12,980	8,273	63.7	—	2,449	29.6	5,824
2008	—	5,091	28.8	12,559	8,361	66.6	—	2,256	27.0	6,105
2009	—	7,047	25.9	20,158	13,356	66.3	1	3,301	24.7	10,054
2010	2	5,994	24.1	18,846	12,578	66.7	—	2,759	21.9	9,819
2011	—	6,494	24.5	20,004	13,419	67.1	15	2,653	19.8	10,751
2012	6	5,641	24.7	17,222	11,112	64.5	81	2,021	18.3	9,010
2013	38	6,201	22.5	21,301	12,613	59.2	907	1,879	16.1	9,827
2014	225	5,934	22.6	20,340	11,461	56.3	3,147	1,259	15.1	7,055
2015	1,686	5,500	23.4	17,976	9,168	51.0	6,482	361	13.4	2,325
2016	9,956	4,092	31.8	8,778	3,716	42.3	3,460	30	11.7	226
All other reviews of SSI disabled children
2002	—	7,238	40.5	10,650	6,155	57.8	—	1,372	22.3	4,783
2003	—	6,248	42.0	8,628	4,996	57.9	—	1,149	23.0	3,847
2004	—	4,871	37.9	7,981	4,943	61.9	—	1,181	23.9	3,762
2005	—	3,121	37.2	5,279	3,326	63.0	—	769	23.1	2,557
2006	—	943	36.4	1,648	1,089	66.1	—	268	24.6	821
2007	—	269	40.3	399	264	66.2	—	80	30.3	184
2008	—	252	37.6	419	259	61.8	—	61	23.6	198
2009	—	506	42.2	694	448	64.6	—	95	21.2	353
2010	—	764	35.7	1,379	953	69.1	—	159	16.7	794
2011	—	1,306	33.2	2,626	1,807	68.8	—	344	19.0	1,463
2012	—	3,717	30.2	8,591	5,949	69.2	36	938	15.9	4,975
2013	9	3,093	29.3	7,447	4,714	63.3	451	589	13.8	3,674
2014	114	5,605	29.8	13,230	8,193	61.9	2,745	772	14.2	4,676
2015	3,251	13,781	34.6	26,081	14,622	56.1	11,000	567	15.7	3,055
2016	21,124	10,879	46.9	12,324	5,523	44.8	5,244	31	11.1	248
Total reviews, SSI disabled children
2002	—	11,755	37.4	19,635	10,829	55.2	—	2,584	23.9	8,245
2003	—	10,430	37.7	17,214	9,592	55.7	—	2,355	24.6	7,237
2004	—	9,045	34.5	17,174	10,143	59.1	—	2,563	25.3	7,580
2005	—	7,579	33.2	15,219	9,087	59.7	—	2,309	25.4	6,778
2006	—	3,945	30.0	9,215	5,634	61.1	—	1,566	27.8	4,068
2007	—	5,235	27.6	13,716	8,726	63.6	—	2,567	29.4	6,159
2008	—	5,607	29.1	13,638	8,981	65.9	—	2,381	26.5	6,600
2009	—	8,145	26.7	22,352	14,673	65.6	1	3,551	24.2	11,121
2010	2	7,948	25.3	23,460	15,415	65.7	—	3,201	20.8	12,214
2011	1	8,868	25.9	25,355	16,905	66.7	15	3,230	19.1	13,660
2012	6	10,226	26.8	27,965	18,283	65.4	130	3,114	17.2	15,039
2013	54	10,389	24.7	31,594	18,884	59.8	1,525	2,656	15.3	14,703
2014	359	12,704	25.9	36,307	21,036	57.9	6,400	2,128	14.5	12,508
2015	5,127	20,165	30.5	45,990	24,668	53.6	18,155	951	14.6	5,562
2016	32,425	15,641	41.6	21,990	9,575	43.5	9,004	64	11.2	507

Fiscal year of initial DDS decisionb	Total initial decisions	Selected summary case information by decision status as of February 2017
		Numbers of cases			Numbers as a percentage of total initial decisions
		Continuations	Cessations pending an appeal decision	Cessations with no appeal pending	Continuations	Cessations pending an appeal decision	Cessations with no appeal pending
Reviews of low-birth-weight children
2002	12,732	6,679	—	6,053	52.5	—	47.5
2003	7,283	3,940	—	3,343	54.1	—	45.9
2004	12,060	6,802	—	5,258	56.4	—	43.6
2005	13,710	7,346	—	6,364	53.6	—	46.4
2006	8,303	4,529	—	3,774	54.5	—	45.5
2007	3,175	1,579	—	1,596	49.7	—	50.3
2008	5,272	2,559	—	2,713	48.5	—	51.5
2009	12,511	6,488	—	6,023	51.9	—	48.1
2010	22,396	10,521	—	11,875	47.0	—	53.0
2011	19,359	8,909	1	10,449	46.0	g	54.0
2012	16,416	7,510	13	8,893	45.7	.1	54.2
2013	19,299	8,955	174	10,170	46.4	.9	52.7
2014	18,126	8,436	528	9,162	46.5	2.9	50.5
2015	14,321	6,747	863	6,711	47.1	6.0	46.9
2016	15,283	7,076	1,645	6,562	46.3	10.8	42.9
Redeterminations at age 18
2002	54,947	37,307	—	17,640	67.9	—	32.1
2003	53,905	36,826	—	17,079	68.3	—	31.7
2004	53,232	36,719	—	16,513	69.0	—	31.0
2005	55,331	36,626	—	18,705	66.2	—	33.8
2006	40,640	25,597	—	15,043	63.0	—	37.0
2007	71,359	43,581	—	27,778	61.1	—	38.9
2008	69,430	41,894	—	27,536	60.3	g	39.7
2009	100,986	62,060	1	38,925	61.5	g	38.5
2010	87,310	50,298	2	37,010	57.6	g	42.4
2011	93,256	51,919	15	41,322	55.7	g	44.3
2012	81,568	44,247	87	37,234	54.2	.1	45.6
2013	91,519	48,587	945	41,987	53.1	1.0	45.9
2014	85,708	44,215	3,372	38,121	51.6	3.9	44.5
2015	84,499	42,324	8,168	34,007	50.1	9.7	40.2
2016	81,025	39,046	13,416	28,563	48.2	16.6	35.3
All other reviews of SSI disabled children
2002	163,768	139,044	—	24,724	84.9	—	15.1
2003	127,444	107,919	—	19,525	84.7	—	15.3
2004	103,437	86,800	—	16,637	83.9	—	16.1
2005	61,387	49,487	—	11,900	80.6	—	19.4
2006	19,384	15,639	—	3,745	80.7	—	19.3
2007	4,440	3,510	—	930	79.1	—	20.9
2008	4,707	3,786	—	921	80.4	—	19.6
2009	10,637	8,956	—	1,681	84.2	—	15.8
2010	16,677	13,424	—	3,253	80.5	—	19.5
2011	25,166	18,807	—	6,359	74.7	—	25.3
2012	64,834	45,924	36	18,874	70.8	.1	29.1
2013	52,998	37,442	460	15,096	70.6	.9	28.5
2014	88,993	63,437	2,859	22,697	71.3	3.2	25.5
2015	223,607	164,466	14,251	44,890	73.6	6.4	20.1
2016	261,185	194,131	26,368	40,686	74.3	10.1	15.6
Total reviews, SSI disabled children
2002	231,447	183,030	—	48,417	79.1	—	20.9
2003	188,632	148,685	—	39,947	78.8	—	21.2
2004	168,729	130,321	—	38,408	77.2	—	22.8
2005	130,428	93,459	—	36,969	71.7	—	28.3
2006	68,327	45,765	—	22,562	67.0	—	33.0
2007	78,974	48,670	—	30,304	61.6	—	38.4
2008	79,409	48,239	—	31,170	60.7	g	39.3
2009	124,134	77,504	1	46,629	62.4	g	37.6
2010	126,383	74,243	2	52,138	58.7	g	41.3
2011	137,781	79,635	16	58,130	57.8	g	42.2
2012	162,818	97,681	136	65,001	60.0	.1	39.9
2013	163,816	94,984	1,579	67,253	58.0	1.0	41.1
2014	192,827	116,088	6,759	69,980	60.2	3.5	36.3
2015	322,427	213,537	23,282	85,608	66.2	7.2	26.6
2016	357,493	240,253	41,429	75,811	67.2	11.6	21.2

^a   Data reflect results as of February 2017. The ultimate numbers of continuations and cessations are subject to change until all appeals are final.

^b  For years prior to 2002, see the most recent Annual Report of Continuing Disability Reviews.

^c  Percentage of decisions at this level.

^d  Percentage of cessations at this level appealed to next level.

^e  We do not reflect the status and disposition of cases in the Federal courts here. However, we have included information on the status and disposition at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) for cases remanded to us by the courts. The excluded experience in the Federal courts has a minimal impact on the number of continuations.

^f  Number of persons appealing beyond the reconsideration level.

^g  Less than 0.05 percent.

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1

The main administrative file for the SSI program.

2

Publication No. 31-231 is available at www.ssa.gov/finance/index.html.

3

The most recent such report can be found at www.ssa.gov/legislation/FY%202014%20CDR%20Report.pdf.

4

Individuals concurrently receiving OASDI and SSI benefits where the OASDI benefit is not based on the individual’s disability are initiated as Title XVI CDRs. The results of the review only affect the individual’s eligibility for SSI benefits.

5

We included in these tables the SSI recipients whose benefits terminate as a result of medical CDRs. We report estimates of Federal SSI program savings resulting from the cessation of benefits to Congress in the Annual Report of Continuing Disability Reviews. The most recent such report, issued December 19, 2016, presented estimates of the effects of CDRs conducted in fiscal year 2014.

6

For years prior to 2002, see the most recent Annual Report of Continuing Disability Reviews for the summary of results for all years since 1993.