Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS)

The PABSS projects are part of Social Security’s strategy to increase the number of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients who return to work and achieve financial independence and self-sufficiency as the result of receiving support, representation, advocacy, or other services. PABSS provides information and advice about obtaining vocational rehabilitation and employment services; and provides advocacy or other services a beneficiary with a disability may need to secure, maintain, or regain employment. The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is a membership organization that holds a contract with Social Security to provide training and technical support to the PABSS grantees. As part of that contract, NDRN maintains a secure, proprietary internet database that grantees use to submit an annual report reflecting services they provide under PABSS funding. Only the PABSS grantees and the contractor have access to the database. The contractor generates each grantee’s report annually, and sends each report, as well as an aggregate report including the total of all services PABSS grantees provide nationally, to the Social Security Contract Officer and to the Contract Officer’s Representative The PABSS Annual Program Performance Report collects statistical information from each of the PABSS projects in an effort to manage and capture program performance and quantitative data. Social Security uses the information to evaluate the efficiency of the program, and to ensure beneficiaries are receiving quality services. The project data is valuable to Social Security in its analysis of and future planning for the SSDI and SSI programs. The respondents are the 57 PABSS project sites, and recipients of SSDI and SSI programs. We are submitting this Change Request to make minor revisions to the SSA-4570 in compliance with E.O. 14151, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.

The latest form for Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS) expires 2026-04-30 and can be found here.

Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS)--Grant Awardees

Federal Enterprise Architecture: Income Security - General Retirement and Disability

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