New report informs Social Security's process for determining if beneficiaries can manage benefits

The best indicator of whether a disabled adult who receives Social Security benefits is capable of managing his or her benefits is evidence of real-world performance of meeting his or her own basic needs, rather than an office-based assessment of financial competence, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In such a performance-based process, information from people who are in direct contact with the beneficiary and in a position to know about his o