Over three-fourths of the working-age population in the United States is insured for Disability Insurance, which protects against the decline in earnings associated with severe disability. However, little is known about the various ways the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides...

We follow six cohorts of childhood Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability awardees for a time horizon up to 30 years, using program records on demographics, type of impairment, SSI and Disability Insurance (DI) recipiency, and mortality. We use descriptive analysis and multinomial logit...

Reviews challenges youth face as they transition to adulthood and presents descriptive statistics on challenges and outcomes into early adulthood.

We show the distributional effects of changing the Social Security indexing scheme with an emphasis on the effects upon disabled-worker beneficiaries. Although a class of reform proposals that would slow the rate of growth of initial benefit levels over time - including price indexing and...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program pays benefits to needy aged, blind, or disabled individuals. Policies for both living arrangements and in-kind support and maintenance (ISM) are intended to direct program benefits toward persons with the least income and support, by reducing...

This report contains information on the extent to which persons with disabilities rely on federal programs, based on the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Imforantion on multiple program participation is also presented. The different levels of functional disability drived in Task...

Using an instrumental-variable strategy based on randomly assigned draft-lottery numbers, we find Vietnam-era veterans were 3 percentage points more likely than non-veterans to have received Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits by 2011, but no more likely to have applied

This article provides an overview of the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC) from the Social Security Administration's perspective, including a brief history of the development of the RRC, a discussion of the aims of the RRC, and some thoughts on its future. The mission of the RRC is to plan...

Most analyses of Social Security reforms ignore interactions with the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. We explicitly consider such interactions using a microsimulation model. The basic reform we examine reduces Social Security benefits by the percentage required to approach 75-year...