Add to ORKGEnrollment in the Social Security Disability Insurance program has risen significantly since the late 1980s; consequently, program expenditures have far outpaced revenues and the SSDI trust fund is projected to hit zero in 2016. Moreover, the SSDI program, as currently administered, discourages applicants and recipients of benefits from seeking and returning to work, thereby reducing federal tax revenues at a time when deficit reduction is critical. The SSDI program can and must be reformed. Reconsidering the medical eligibility criteria for benefits, promoting earlier medical interventions, allowing for SSA representation at appeal hearings on benefit decisions, enacting time limits for some benefit awards, and increasing the frequency of ...
This paper predicts the budgetary, behavioral, and welfare effects of a proposed change in the Socia...
This report provides background information on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Also, th...
The passage of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 prompted several chang...
Enrollment in the Social Security Disability Insurance program has risen significantly since the lat...
Substantial growth in the Social Security disability programs, and the failure of work incentive leg...
With the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) trust fund on the verge of depletion, Congress ...
The thesis of this Article is that reform of the Supplemental Security Income disability program is ...
Of the approximately 17.5 million working-age people in the United States who live with disabilities...
Two ailments limit the effectiveness and threaten the long-term viability of the U.S. Social Securit...
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the Disability...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The three larg...
Two ailments limit the effectiveness and threaten the long-term viability of the U.S. Social Securit...
Administration (SSA), insures workers and their families against the inability to work because of a ...
M ore than 80 percent of all nonelderly adults in the United States areinsured against the risk of b...
More than 80 percent of nonelderly U.S. adults are insured against the risk of disabling physical or...
This paper predicts the budgetary, behavioral, and welfare effects of a proposed change in the Socia...
This report provides background information on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Also, th...
The passage of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 prompted several chang...
Enrollment in the Social Security Disability Insurance program has risen significantly since the lat...
Substantial growth in the Social Security disability programs, and the failure of work incentive leg...
With the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) trust fund on the verge of depletion, Congress ...
The thesis of this Article is that reform of the Supplemental Security Income disability program is ...
Of the approximately 17.5 million working-age people in the United States who live with disabilities...
Two ailments limit the effectiveness and threaten the long-term viability of the U.S. Social Securit...
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the Disability...
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The three larg...
Two ailments limit the effectiveness and threaten the long-term viability of the U.S. Social Securit...
Administration (SSA), insures workers and their families against the inability to work because of a ...
M ore than 80 percent of all nonelderly adults in the United States areinsured against the risk of b...
More than 80 percent of nonelderly U.S. adults are insured against the risk of disabling physical or...
This paper predicts the budgetary, behavioral, and welfare effects of a proposed change in the Socia...
This report provides background information on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Also, th...
The passage of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 prompted several chang...