Overview
- Advocate Jason Turkish says White House deputy chief of staff James Blair, OMB director Russell Vought, and SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano told him the draft regulation would not move forward.
- The shelved proposal would have updated outdated job data used in disability decisions and largely removed age as a factor, a change expected to hit older blue-collar workers hardest.
- Independent analyses cited in reporting projected that hundreds of thousands could lose eligibility for SSDI and SSI over a decade if the changes took effect.
- A White House spokesperson told reporters it has not seen any such proposal, while reiterating the president’s commitment to protecting Social Security.
- SSA’s path for adopting Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational data remains uncertain, with experts expecting at least a short-term delay absent a broader rule change.