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This program was the SSA's initial responsibility and remains its largest single one, consuming 44% of the effort of its workforce.
The Social Security Administration understands that it is fraught with faults. Its culpability is clear and the agency admits that it "did not do as good a job as we should have" when it came to monitoring SSI funds. In 1994 Commissioner Chater in her testimony before Congress acknowledged the problems and said that the public "has a right to expect that those disabled by substance addictions will not simply continue on the disability payment rolls without taking responsibility for themselves." For this reason, states have been order to tighten their candidate screening in order to ensure that only the deserving get benefits of SSA.
SSA faces many new challenges as well. The biggest however will still be ineligible candidates getting benefits. It has also been seen that many drug addicts are on the program while they are clearly not suitable or eligible to be on this system. This will continue to pose a problem unless strict measures are taken. But sometimes when things...
This creates dual problem for SSA.
Apart from this SSA has also been facing problems of lack of staffing. Chater says that the agency doesn't have enough hands to handle the load. And thus mistakes can happen. Even though the government has increased funding since 1993 when it was $4 million to almost 80% more, SSA is still facing some challenges because of slow economy.
SSA is a program that must have helped many deserving individuals but at the same time, the agency has faced its fair share of criticism, problems and challenges. In the coming years, its most pressing challenge would be to survive under trying economic times. With this rate of economic progress, the federal government is not likely to increase funding to SSA. It may actually be forced to cut funding to some extent and that would hurt the program seriously and more oversights would become a strong possibility.
Social Security Administration, Executive Handbook of Selected Data, SSA Pub. 47-085 ( May 1988), p. 10.
Michael Rust, "Social…
SSA is a program that must have helped many deserving individuals but at the same time, the agency has faced its fair share of criticism, problems and challenges. In the coming years, its most pressing challenge would be to survive under trying economic times. With this rate of economic progress, the federal government is not likely to increase funding to SSA. It may actually be forced to cut funding to some extent and that would hurt the program seriously and more oversights would become a strong possibility.
Social Security Administration, Executive Handbook of Selected Data, SSA Pub. 47-085 ( May 1988), p. 10.
Michael Rust, "Social Security Scam: Uncle Sam as Enabler," Insight on the News 11 Apr. 1994
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