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Arkansas Disability Determination office outlines federal rules, claims volume and $35M fraud recoveries
Summary
The state's Social Security disability determination office told the committee federal standards set a high threshold for disability benefits, that Arkansas processes about 85,000 claims yearly, and that a collaborative fraud unit established in 2016 has returned more than $35 million to the Social Security Trust Fund.
The director of Arkansas’s Disability Determination Services (DDS) briefed the committee on how the federal disability program works and described program trends and recent fraud-recovery results. The director emphasized that federal criteria — not state standards — determine eligibility for Social Security Disability benefits, and observed that roughly one-third of…
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