After signaling its intention earlier this year to make significant changes in how it determines eligibility for disability benefits, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has told disability advocates it is not moving forward with an overhaul.

The move followed pushback from advocacy and research groups that said the proposals thought to be under consideration could have denied benefits to hundreds of thousands of people who currently qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and would have had an outsize impact on older Americans.

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