To better understand Americans' perspectives on Social Security and their preferences regarding options to strengthen the program for the future, the National Academy of Social Insurance partnered with Mathew Greenwald & Associates to conduct a multigenerational study. The study included an...

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2007 is the twelfth in a series begun by the National Academy of Social Insurance to provide the only comprehensive national data on this largely state-run program. The study provides estimates of workers' compensation payments - cash and...

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2005 is the tenth in a series begun by the National Academy of Social Insurance to provide the only comprehensive national data on this largely state-run program. The study provides estimates of workers' compensation payments - cash and...

Workers' compensation is an important part of U.S. social insurance. Workers' compensation pays for medical care, rehabilitation, and cash benefits for workers who are injured on the job or who contract work-related illnesses. It also pays benefits to families of workers who die of work-related...

Currently, 8.8 million disabled workers (and nearly 2 million of their children) receive Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits. For many, DI benefits are nearly all the income they have. The DI trust fund reserves are projected to be depleted in 2016, after which tax revenues coming...

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2003 is the eighth in a series begun by the National Academy of Social Insurance to provide the only comprehensive national data on this largely state-run program. The study provides estimates of workers' compensation payments - cash and...

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2002 is the seventh in a series begun by the National Academy of Social Insurance to provide the only comprehensive national data on this largely state-run program. The study provides estimates of workers' compensation payments - cash and...

Reflections on Implementing Medicare, originally printed in the spring of 1993, provides a historical reflection on the early days of a program enacted in 1965 to provide health care coverage to 19 million elderly Americans. This second edition was released by the study panel on Medicare...