Overview
Senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) specializing in Social Security, Medicare, and federal budget policy. A leading policy voice defending the existing DI vocational framework against proposals to tighten eligibility.
Key Contributions
- "The Realities of Work for Individuals with Disabilities" (remarks at SSA National Disability Forum, November 2015): Responded to SSA's 2015 ANPRM on vocational factor revision. Central argument: aggregate health improvements do not reach the low-education, manual-labor workers who rely on grid-based eligibility; the 2005 proposed rule to raise grid age thresholds was withdrawn in 2009 and should not be revived. See Vocational Grid.
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