Testing Modifications to the Disability Determination Procedures; Federal Processing Center Testing

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is announcing the location and the duration of additional testing that it will conduct under the current rules at 20 CFR Secs. 404.906, 404.943, 416.1406, and 416.1443. Those rules authorize the testing of several modifications to the disability determination procedures that we normally follow in adjudicating claims for disability insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (the Act) and claims for supplemental security income (SSI) based on disability under title XVI of the Act. This notice announces the test site and duration of testing involving a combination of features of the proposed redesigned disability process. The notice also describes additional features that will allow us to test the effectiveness of processing cases under a combination of the models in a Federal processing center.