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Disability Backlog Must be Cut to Brace for Boomers

The Social Security Administration is making progress in reducing its backlog of disability claims, but without more resources, it will like fall further behind as aging boomers overwhelm the system, Comptroller General David Walker said. SSA needs more funding from Congress and it needs to hire more staff, Walker said. ?There are serious fundamental and systematic problems. We need to change the pipeline, not just the tail end. We need to look at the flow,? he said. See full article here: read more

Full post as published by Social Security Disability Law Blog on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).