Federal Register: July 9, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 130)
DOCID: fr09jy09-11 FR Doc E9-16277
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Social Security Administration
CFR Citation: 20 CFR Parts 404, 405, and 416
Docket ID: [Docket No. SSA-2007-0053]
NOTICE: PROPOSED RULES
DOCID: fr09jy09-11
DOCUMENT ACTION: Announcement of public hearing.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Compassionate Allowances for Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias; Office of the Commissioner, Hearing
DATES: This hearing will be held on July 29, 2009, between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Central Daylight Time (CDT), in Chicago, IL. The hearing will be held at the Drake Hotel, 140 East Walton Place, Chicago, IL 60611. While the public is welcome to attend the hearing, only invited witnesses will present testimony.
You may also watch the proceedings live via Webcast beginning at 9 a.m. CDT. You may access the Webcast line for the hearing on the Social Security Administration Web site at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/ compassionate_allowances/hearings0709.htm.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
We are considering ways to quickly identify diseases and other serious medical conditions that obviously meet the definition of disability under the Social Security Act (Act) and can be identified with minimal objective medical information. We are calling this method ``Compassionate Allowances.'' We will hold a hearing on July 29, 2009, to obtain information about possible methods of identifying adults with EarlyOnset Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias and the advisability of implementing compassionate allowances for people with these diseases.
SUMMARY:
Compassionate Allowances for Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias; Public Hearing
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Background
Under titles II and XVI of the Act, we pay benefits to claimants
who meet our rules for entitlement and have medically determinable
physical or mental impairments that are severe enough to meet the
definition of disability in the Act. The rules for determining
disability can be very complicated, but some claimants have such
serious medical conditions that their conditions obviously meet our
disability standards. To better address the needs of these claimants,
we have implemented the Compassionate Allowance initiative to quickly
identify diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify
under our Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information.
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Will We Respond to Your Comments?
We will carefully consider your comments, although we will not respond directly to comments sent in response to this notice or the hearing.
Additional Hearings
We have held three hearings since December 2007. These hearings
were on rare diseases, cancers, and traumatic brain injury and stroke.
You may access the transcripts of the hearings at http://
www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances. We plan to hold
additional hearings on other conditions and will announce those hearings later with notices in the Federal Register.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 96.001, Social
SecurityDisability Insurance; 96.006, Supplemental Security Income.)
Dated: July 1, 2009.
Michael J. Astrue,
Commissioner of Social Security.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Compassionate.Allowances@ssa.gov. You may also mail inquiries about this meeting to Nancy Schoenberg at the abovementioned address. For information on eligibility or filing for benefits, call our national tollfree number 18007721213 or TTY 1 8003250778, or visit Social Security online, at http:// www.socialsecurity.gov.