[nfbwatlk] A Disability System for the 21st Century (fwd)

[Mike Freeman]

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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:52:54 -0400
From: Carolyn Lapp <lappland at bellsouth.net>
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Subject: [Nfbf-l] A Disability System for the 21st Century

Social Security Advisory Board issues:

             A Disability System for the 21st Century
                         September 2006

In its October 2003 report, The Social Security Definition of
Disability, the Social Security Advisory Board observed that,
"The original Social Security disability programs were designed
to serve those who had no realistic expectation of a return to
the workforce because of a combination of severity of disability
and attainment of near-retirement age." That report raised the
question of whether or not the Social Security definition of
disability facilitates an appropriate approach to supporting and
enabling persons with disabilities.  After 3 years of intensive
study of this question, the Board has issued a follow-up report
outlining its vision of a disability system for the 21st century
that is in alignment with the Americans With Disabilities Act,
which proclaimed, "the Nation's proper goals regarding
individuals with disabilities are to assure equality of
opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic
self-sufficiency for such individuals..."

The Board's report is available now in a preliminary electronic
version at:
http://www.ssab.gov/documents/disability-system-21st.pdf
Printed copies will be available at a later date.

This and other Board reports can be requested or downloaded from
the Boards website
http://www.ssab.gov:

Other recent reports issued by the Board include:

* Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials (March 2006)
http://www.ssab.gov/DisabilityChartbookSummar.htm

* Social Security: Why Action Should Be Taken Soon (Sept. 2005)
http://www.ssab.gov/Why_action_is_needed_soon.htm

* Retirement Security: The Unfolding of a Predictable Surprise
   (March 2005)
http://www.ssab.gov/RetirementSecuritySummary.htm

* The Social Security Definition of Disability (October 2003)
http://www.ssab.gov/Definition-of-disability-summary.htm

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http://www.aapd.com/News/SocSecurity/indexSocSecurity.php

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