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Subcommittee on Social Security spotlights barriers to work for disability beneficiaries
Summary
The House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Social Security opened a hearing focused on administrative barriers that discourage people receiving Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income from entering or remaining in the workforce, citing program complexity, overpayment risks and slow processes.
The subcommittee chair opened the House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Social Security hearing and said the session would examine barriers that keep Americans with disabilities from participating in the workforce.
The chair said the hearing was intended to explore how the Social Security Administration's return-to-work programs could be modernized to reduce red tape and financial disincentives for beneficiaries who want to work. "This is not just a statistic; it's a call to action," the chair said, adding the goal is not to remove benefits but to "remove the barriers that hinder Americans with disabilities from renewing,…
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