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Social Security Administration: Disabilities
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The Social Security Administration credited a "tremendous response" from the disability community during the comment period for the proposed rule change. The Social Security Administration’s final rules published in the Federal Register can be accessed by going to http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html and entering the date of April 15, 1999. For a copy of NAMI’s comments on the increase in SGA, please go to the NAMI website at http://www.nami.org/policy.htm.
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Thanks to North Carolina attorney Brent Adams for pointing out this article in the Charlotte Observer about the increasing backlog of Social Security disability claims filed with the Social Security Administration. Here are excerpts from the opinion piece:
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* When the study compared the privatization proposals to Social Security using the same tax rate for both plans, in the majority of cases, the privatized systems produced higher disability benefits than Social Security. [205]
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