I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5221 
To prohibit the use of funds to develop, test, deploy, implement, or administer 
the Disability Case Processing System, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 8, 2018 
Mr. GROTHMAN (for himself, Mr. LOUDERMILK, and Mr. DESJARLAIS) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 
and Means 
A BILL 
To prohibit the use of funds to develop, test, deploy, imple-
ment, or administer the Disability Case Processing Sys-
tem, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINIS-
TRATION DISABILITY CASE PROCESSING SYS-
TEM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) In 2014, whistleblowers informed the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform that 
the Social Security Administration (in this Act re-
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ferred to as the ‘‘SSA’’) has spent nearly 
$300,000,000 on a failed information technology 
modernization project known as the Disability Case 
Processing System (in this Act referred to as the 
‘‘DCPS’’). 
(2) On July 25, 2014, the Chairman of the 
Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee 
on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives 
requested that the SSA Inspector General (in this 
Act referred to as the ‘‘SSA IG’’) conduct an ‘‘inves-
tigation into the SSA’s management and failed im-
plementation of the DCPS costing the taxpayers 
close to $300 million to date.’’. 
(3) The SSA IG, in its November 2014 initial 
report, stated that it had concerns with the SSA’s 
approach and recommended that the SSA not spend 
more funds until it determined whether the commer-
cial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software could be used. 
(4) In May 2016, the SSA IG reported that the 
SSA had spent over $300,000,000 on the DCPS 
project, ‘‘for which it would receive little benefit’’, 
and according to the SSA, it would still need 
$90,000,000 to $165,000,000 to deliver the first re-
lease of the new Core DCPS between July and De-
cember of 2016. 
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(5) The SSA IG reported in September 2016 
that, since its inception 8 years earlier, the SSA’s 
reported 
costs 
for 
the 
DCPS 
project 
were 
$356,000,000. SSA estimated it would still need an 
additional $122,000,000 through 2019 for the 
project. 
(6) In its September 2017 report, the SSA IG 
reported that the SSA’s goals were to deliver full 
functionality of DCPS by April 2018 and full de-
ployment systemwide by September 2019, bringing 
the total expenditure for the DCPS project to over 
$500,000,000. However, even after 3 years of re-
porting on DCPS, the SSA IG concluded that ‘‘given 
the uncertainty of the future growth of the backlog 
and SSA’s ongoing development velocity, we were 
unable to conclude whether the Agency’s release 
goals were reasonable.’’. 
(b) PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR DCPS.—None of 
the funds available to the Social Security Administration 
for any fiscal year may be used to develop, test, deploy, 
implement, or administer the Disability Case Processing 
System or any substantially similar program unless spe-
cifically authorized by Congress. 
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