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1 Introduction
Pages 13-17

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From page 13...
... benefits to disabled workers, who are insured against disability under Title II of the Social Security Act, and their dependents, as well as to certain disabled adult children of disabled, retired, or deceased workers and widows and widowers of deceased workers.1 It also pays Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits to disabled adults and children who have limited income and resources under Title XVI of the Social Security Act.
From page 14...
... to decide appeals. From 1990 to 2003, expenditures for cash benefits under the Social Security disability program rose 93 percent in real terms.
From page 15...
... are a set of approximately 100 medical conditions with criteria of severity set so high that anyone who meets them, or has a condition that equals them in severity, is presumed to be disabled and allowed benefits. SSA does not subject applicants who meet or equal the Listings to the more time-consuming and expensive process of considering vocational factors and the interaction between the person's limitations and the physical and mental demands of jobs they might seek.
From page 16...
... 2006b. trends in the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Disability programs.
From page 17...
... 2006g. annual statistical report on the Social Security Disability Insurance Program, 2005.


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