Mission

The CCD Social Security Task Force focuses on disability policy issues in the Title II disability programs and the Title XVI Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The SSI and Title II cash benefits, along with the related Medicaid and Medicare benefits, are the means of survival for millions of individuals with severe disabilities. They rely on SSA to promptly and fairly adjudicate their applications for disability benefits and to handle many other actions critical to their well-being. The Social Security Task Force’s policy agenda focuses on:

• Ensuring that the impact on people with disabilities is considered and their interests are protected in Social Security and SSI policy debates.
• Advocating that SSA’s administrative budget be adequately funded so that SSA has sufficient resources for personnel and service needs.
• Monitoring proposed changes to the disability claims process.
• Advocating for legislation, regulations, and policy changes to improve, simplify, and update the Social Security and SSI disability programs, including work incentives.
• Maximizing employment opportunities for current and future disability beneficiaries while also doing no harm to existing critical income supports.

Co-chairs

• Jennifer Burdick
  Community Legal Services of Philadelphia
  215-981-3721 pohne
  jburdick@clsphila.org

• David Goldfarb
  The Arc of the United States
  Goldfarb@TheArc.org

• Tracey Thomas Gronniger
  Justice in Aging
  202-683-1993 phone 
  tgronniger@justiceinaging.org

• Darcy Milburn
  The Arc of the United States
  milburn@thearc.org 

• Jeanne Morin
  National Association of Disability Representatives (NADR)
  202-824-1725 phone
  jmorin.ppa@gmail.com 

ACTIVITIES

Social Security Task Force CCD CoChairs Setting Manner of Appearance Comment Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments on SSA’s proposal related to setting the manner and appearance of parties at witnesses at hearings. These comments are submitted on behalf of the co-chairs of the Social Security Task Force (SSTF) of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD). (July 18,  2023) - Download [ PDF ] Social Security Task Force CCD FY 2024 Letter to Appropriators The undersigned organizations of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities’ (CCD) Social Security Task Force urge you to fund SSA’s administrative budget to no less than the President’s request of $15.5 billion for FY 2024. This increased funding is essential in order to ensure that SSA has the resources it needs to improve service and address staffing levels that since FY 2010 have dropped by almost 16 percent while the number of beneficiaries has grown by 22 percent. (March 28,  2023) - Download [ PDF ] Social Security Task Force CCD FY 2024 Letter to Appropriators The undersigned organizations of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities’ (CCD) Social Security Task Force urge you to fund SSA’s administrative budget to no less than the President’s request of $15.5 billion for FY 2024. This increased funding is essential in order to ensure that SSA has the resources it needs to improve service and address staffing levels that since FY 2010 have dropped by almost 16 percent while the number of beneficiaries has grown by 22 percent. (March 28,  2023) - Download [ PDF ] Social Security Task Force CCD 2022 Social Security Task Force Annual Report (January 16,  2023) - Download [ PDF ]