Delivering on the Promise: U.S. Social Security Administration. Self-Evaluation to Promote Community Living for People with Disabilities

摘要

The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates two major cash benefit programs for people with disabilities. The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program is a social insurance program with benefits based on prior earnings. The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program is a means-tested income-assistance program. These cash and medical benefits may be critical to an individual's ability to live in the least restrictive and most integrated appropriate setting. The cash benefits, often in conjunction with food stamps and housing subsidies, can provide for basic needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter. The medical benefits can enable an individual to obtain treatment that may be critical to his or her ability to function in a community setting. An evaluation of the policies and procedures that make up SSA's cash-benefit and employment-support programs shows them to be thoroughly consistent with the objectives of Executive Order 13217.