DISABILITY AMENDMENTS OF 1982 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 5700 TO AMEND TITLE II OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT TO PRO- MARCH 16 AND 17, 1982 Serial 97-54 Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, Illinois, Chairman SAM M. GIBBONS, Florida J. J. PICKLE, Texas CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York RICHARD A. GEPHARDT, Missouri DON J. PEASE, Ohio KENT HANCE, Texas ROBERT T. MATSUI, California DON BAILEY, Pennsylvania BERYL ANTHONY, JR., Arkansas BARBER B. CONABLE, JR., New York GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan JAMES G. MARTIN, North Carolina JOHN H. ROUSSELOT, California CONTENTS Social Security Administration: Hon. John A. Svahn, Commissioner of Social Security; James S. Jeffers, Associate Commissioner for Governmental Af- fairs; Louis B. Hays, Associate Commissioner for Hearings and Appeals; and Rhoda Greenberg, Director, Office of Disability Programs... Page Bernstein, Bernice, SOS Coalition To Protect Social Security. Community Legal Services, Inc., Pennsylvania, Jonathan M. Stein Galotti, Joseph, Connecticut State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation Kemp, Evan, and Jane Kemp, Disability Rights Center, Washington, D.C Legislative Council of Older Americans, Inc., Eileen P. Sweeney Lomax, Michael, National Association of Disability Examiners. National Council of Social Security Field Office Locals, AFGE, John Harris. National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, Nancy Phelan, Richard H., Texas Rehabilitation Commission, and Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation Riegle, Hon. Donald W., Jr., a U.S. Senator from the State of Michigan.. Shor, Nancy G., National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Repre- Skelton, Hon. Ike, a Representative in Congress from the State of Missouri...... 139 28 |