The Social Security Advisory Board (“SSAB”) has released its 2023 SSI Statement, with a focus on rates of poverty and disability in the American Indian and Alaskan Native population. As the report documents, this population experiences “significantly worse socioeconomic circumstances and poor health compared to the general population.” 

Among the SSAB’s conclusions, which NOSSCR supports, are that SSA must develop an online SSI application while also “expanding and improving its telephone service.”