Fichtner Nomination To SSAB Advances
The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing for February 5 on three nominations. One of them is the nomination of Jason J. Fichtner to be a member of the Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB).
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To Add To The Mystery
The biggest mystery in the Social Security world is what is happening with the rate at which claims for Social Security disability benefits are being filed. There was a big run-up between about 2008 and 2010 followed by a prolonged decline. Various theories have been propounded but no one has a good handle on this. No, declines in unemployment cannot be the only explanation. If that were the case, the decline would have ended some time ago. Jeffrey Schuh and Richard Leavitt gave a presentation to the Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods of the Social Security Advisory Board on Disability Insurance: The Private Sector . It included the table shown below. LTD means Long Term Disability, that is private insurance, mostly an employee benefit. It's not stated in the presentation but I think EP stands for Elimination Period, that is the length of time after disability begins before LTD payments begin. EP-90 is a 90 day elimination perio...