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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
Bf Rep. Burr P. Harrison •
Washington—As this r e a c h e s print, we shall be moving through our second week of public hearings here on administrative problems arising under the disability benefit provisions of ihe Social Security Act. In this study, dry statistics and intricate organizational flow of charts come into contrast with the grim and pathos-touched human hardship of physical disability. The mail purpose of the hearings before a subcommittee of which I happen to be doorman is to obtain information as to how the social security disability benefits program has been working out in the few yean it has been in operation. We want to know if the intent of Congress in writing this program into law is being carried out—are the provisions of the law being applied fairly to the hundreds of thousands of citizens who are applying for benefits? . . The testimony and questioning, it is hoped, also will suggest ways in which the processing time and red tape could be reduced, in the interests both of the claimant and taxpayers generally. We have heard officials of the Social Security Administration and the General Accounting Office. We also have had testimony from State officials concerned with disability and vocational rdiabilitation matters. In addition, we have had public witnesses, including representatives of the medical profession, vocational retraining specialists, labor unions and other groups.
With the assistance of the General . Accounting Office, the sub
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