Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market /
Dubin, Jon C.
Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market / Jon C. Dubin. - 1 online resource : 7 b/w illustrations
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How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, more judges handle disability cases for the Social Security Administration than civil and criminal cases combined. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market, Jon C. Dubin challenges the contemporary policies for determining disability benefits and work assessment. He posits the fundamental questions: where are the jobs for persons with significant medical and vocational challenges? And how does the administration misfire in its standards and processes for answering that question? Deploying his profound understanding of the Social Security Administration and Disability law and policy, he demystifies the system, showing us its complex inner mechanisms and flaws, its history and evolution, and how changes in the labor market have made rendered some agency processes obsolete. Dubin lays out how those who advocate eviscerating program coverage and needed life support benefits in the guise of modernizing these procedures would reduce the capacity for the Social Security Administration to function properly and serve its intended beneficiaries, and argues that the disability system should instead be "mended, not ended."Dubin argues that while it may seem counterintuitive, the transformation from an industrial economy to a twenty-first-century service economy in the information age, with increased automation, and resulting diminished demand for arduous physical labor, has not meaningfully reduced the relevance of, or need for, the disability benefits programs. Indeed, they have created new and different obstacles to work adjustments based on the need for other skills and capacities in the new economy-especially for the significant portion of persons with cognitive, psychiatric, neuro-psychological, or other mental impairments. Therefore, while the disability program is in dire need of empirically supported updating and measures to remedy identified deficiencies, obsolescence, inconsistencies in application, and racial, economic and other inequities, the program's framework is sufficiently broad and enduring to remain relevant and faithful to the Act's congressional beneficent purposes and aspirations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479811045
10.18574/nyu/9781479811014.001.0001 doi
LAW / Disability.
1967 Social Security Act Amendment. ALJ Impartiality/Racial Bias. ALJ racial bias training. Administrative/Official Notice Doctrine. Biestek Decision. Burden of Proof. Campbell Decision. Congressional action. Dictionary of Occupational Titles. Disability Prevalence. Disability Rating. Disability Standard Strictness. Elimination of Vocational Factors. Fraud. Kerner decision. Marc Warshawsky. Mend it don't end it. No exertional limitations. OIS not outcome driven. Occupational Information System. Occupational Requirements Survey. Occupational disability standard. Sequential Evaluation Process. Taxonomy. Trust Fund. Vocational Experts. grid framework. vocational expert certification.
344.7302/3
Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market / Jon C. Dubin. - 1 online resource : 7 b/w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, more judges handle disability cases for the Social Security Administration than civil and criminal cases combined. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market, Jon C. Dubin challenges the contemporary policies for determining disability benefits and work assessment. He posits the fundamental questions: where are the jobs for persons with significant medical and vocational challenges? And how does the administration misfire in its standards and processes for answering that question? Deploying his profound understanding of the Social Security Administration and Disability law and policy, he demystifies the system, showing us its complex inner mechanisms and flaws, its history and evolution, and how changes in the labor market have made rendered some agency processes obsolete. Dubin lays out how those who advocate eviscerating program coverage and needed life support benefits in the guise of modernizing these procedures would reduce the capacity for the Social Security Administration to function properly and serve its intended beneficiaries, and argues that the disability system should instead be "mended, not ended."Dubin argues that while it may seem counterintuitive, the transformation from an industrial economy to a twenty-first-century service economy in the information age, with increased automation, and resulting diminished demand for arduous physical labor, has not meaningfully reduced the relevance of, or need for, the disability benefits programs. Indeed, they have created new and different obstacles to work adjustments based on the need for other skills and capacities in the new economy-especially for the significant portion of persons with cognitive, psychiatric, neuro-psychological, or other mental impairments. Therefore, while the disability program is in dire need of empirically supported updating and measures to remedy identified deficiencies, obsolescence, inconsistencies in application, and racial, economic and other inequities, the program's framework is sufficiently broad and enduring to remain relevant and faithful to the Act's congressional beneficent purposes and aspirations.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479811045
10.18574/nyu/9781479811014.001.0001 doi
LAW / Disability.
1967 Social Security Act Amendment. ALJ Impartiality/Racial Bias. ALJ racial bias training. Administrative/Official Notice Doctrine. Biestek Decision. Burden of Proof. Campbell Decision. Congressional action. Dictionary of Occupational Titles. Disability Prevalence. Disability Rating. Disability Standard Strictness. Elimination of Vocational Factors. Fraud. Kerner decision. Marc Warshawsky. Mend it don't end it. No exertional limitations. OIS not outcome driven. Occupational Information System. Occupational Requirements Survey. Occupational disability standard. Sequential Evaluation Process. Taxonomy. Trust Fund. Vocational Experts. grid framework. vocational expert certification.
344.7302/3