A bill to revive and make permanent the provisions of section 1619 of the Social Security Act which authorize the continued payment of SSI benefits to individuals who work despite severe medical impairment, to amend such Act to require concurrent notification of eligibility for SSI and medicaid benefits, to require notification to certain disabled SSI recipients of their potential eligibility for benefits under such section 1619, and to provide for the conduct by the General Accounting Office of a study of the effects of the work incentive provisions of such section 1619.

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Makes permanent the section of title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act which provides benefits for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and requires a State's Medicaid (title XIX of the Act) plan to establish procedures to ensure that whenever an individual is formally notified of eligibility for SSI benefits notification is also made of the availability of Medicaid. Directs the Secretary to notify certain disabled SSI recipients of their potential eligibility for the SSI benefits for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the operation of the SSI section which provides benefits for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment, with the particular objective of evaluating the work incentive provisions of such section. Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress the findings of such study.

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  summary · EN · 18 September 1984

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