The Michigan Daily-Saturday, April 9, 1983-page 7
Senator urges Social Security
to provide benefits for mentally ill
* WASHINGTON - Sen. John Heinz
urged the administration yesterday to
stop taking the mentally ill of f
disability rolls until promised reforms
are made, saying a Social Security
crackdown is "driving people literally
to the brink of death."
"People who are just clearly unable
to function, let alone unable to hold a
job, are being plut into the meat grinder
of this process," the Pennsylvania
Republican told a hearing of his Special
Committee on Aging.
"PEOPLE WHO are jsut clearly
unable to functioin, let alone hold a job,
are being put into the meat grinder of
this process," charged Heinz.
The Social Security deputy com-
missioner, Paul Simmons, insisted "the
vast majority" of those dropped from
the rolls did not belong there.
But he conceded the program has
become "inhuman,' and said the
government plans a major overhaul.
"WE ARE trying to humanize the
system, and I can't emphasize enough
how inhuman it had grown to be," he
said.
Simmons was the only witness at
yesterday's session. The testimony en-
ded two days of hearings on charges the
government is stopping checks to
deserving people under a crackdown
ordered by Congress to cut waste in the
$22 billion program that pays benefits
to 6 million workers and dependents.
Since stepped-up eligibility reviews
began two years ago, 341,000 people
hhve been ordered off the rolls - 45 per-
cent of those called in. Critics say the
mentally ill are being singled out.
HEINZ SAID he will propose
legislation to halt disability cutoffs to
the mentall ill until the Social Security
Administration puts promised reforms
into effect. He said later he expects a
"good deal of support" in Congress.
1 don't think we need a
moratorium," Simmons said. "I think
we need to do a better job."
Heinz told Simmons the campaign to
pare the rolls is "driving people
literally to the brink of death." Some
sucicides have been reported after
people lost benefits, but Heinz said he
could not blame them on Social
Security policy.
SIMMONS SAID some reforms have
beenmade and promised Heinz "sub-
stantial revisions" to the definition of
mental disability "within a matter of
months."
"We're moving as fast as we can," he
said.
He said he would "seriously con-
sider" slowing the number of mentally
ill cases called up for review, and
agreed with three of four recommen-
dations for changes made by Congress'
General Accounting Office.
The GAO urged hiring more
psychiatrists to meet shortages in 36
states, a relaxed definition of mental
disability and more consideration for
whether a person can actually hold a
job.
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