SSA needs to tighten up oversight of state medical experts, watchdog says




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Summary: The Social Security Administration delegates to state agencies responsibility for making disability determinations. States in turn use medical experts, some staff, some contracted. Either way, the Government Accountability Office found Social Security needs to shore up its oversight of state medical experts. For more, we turned to the director of GAO's education, workforce and income security team, Elizabeth Curda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices