Payers, Regulators Say SSA Proposal to Add Reporting Mandate Would Be Burdensome

Insurance carriers, regulators and claimants’ attorneys are concerned that a proposal to require carriers and states to report workers’ compensation benefits to the Social Security Administration would add yet another administrative burden to a highly-regulated system. President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget request for the SSA contains a proposal to require carriers, state regulators and local governments to report benefit information so that the administration can reduce disability benefits to beneficiaries who have received workers’ compensation benefits. But the budge...