About 8 to 9 percent of children in the United States have a relatively serious disability. Families caring for these … children are more likely to experience various economic hardships than other families with children, even when their incomes …, average at least $6,150 a year. Costs at the high end, which are more likely to reflect the subset of disabled children who …

-income families with children in the United States, with 1.04 million children currently receiving SSI benefits and 6 percent of … children in a household with some SSI income. In this paper we use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation …