This article examines how much time typically passes between disability onset and application for disability-program benefits, by age at onset and diagnosis. Among eventual applicants, certain subgroups might be suitable targets for employment-support interventions. Using Social Security...

This article describes the de facto standards of low income and resources reflected in the eligibility standards of the largest means-tested programs that serve the elderly and then applies these standards to a near-elderly cohort. Through juxtaposing retirement resources in the near-elderly...

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...

The federal benefit rate (FBR) of the Supplemental Security Income program provides an inflation-indexed income guarantee for aged and disabled people with low assets. Some consider the FBR an attractive measure of Social Security benefit adequacy. Others propose the FBR as an administratively...