The Policy Effects of Disability Benefit Reforms

The Policy Effects of Disability Benefit Reforms: A Comparative ...

Sweden and the UK have introduced reforms to increase conditionality for disability benefits (reduced generosity and stricter eligibility) ...

Unemployment insurance expansions could reduce disability benefit ...

When analyzing the impact of reforms increasing unemployment benefit generosity in states from 1990 to 2013, Parolin and Pignatti found that ...

Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US: lessons from ...

As reforms in these countries demonstrate, generous programs conditioned on not working lead to lower levels of work and higher disability recipiency than ...

The Effect of Welfare Reform on SSA's Disability Programs: Design ...

Section 105 of Public Law 104-121, enacted on. March 29, 1996, mandated the removal of persons from the Supplemental Security Income. (SSI) and Social Security ...

The Top 5 Ways Project 2025 Would Hurt Disabled People

Most egregiously, Project 2025 would set time limits on Medicaid coverage or arbitrary lifetime caps on benefits, which could put millions of ...

The effect of welfare reform on SSA's disability programs - PubMed

The effect of welfare reform on SSA's disability programs: design of policy evaluation and early evidence. Soc Secur Bull. 2000;63(1):3-11. Authors. P Davies ...

Disability, Welfare Reform, and Supplemental Security Income - SSA

Surveys have found that persons with disabilities receiving these benefits were less likely to be working. Sanctioning rates of these families exceed those for ...

A proposal for modernizing the US disability insurance system

The SSDI program still uses this definition, providing income support and medical benefits exclusively to workers who are out of the labor force and cannot be ...

16 Reforms to Improve the Solvency and Integrity of Social Security ...

Furthermore, despite the program's intent to provide benefits only while workers are disabled, the SSDI program fails to conduct sufficient ...

Publication: The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss

The consequences of leaving disability insurance differed sharply by pre-reform employment status. Among the beneficiaries who were employed in ...

Effects of social security policy reforms on mental health and ...

Ten studies found no effect for either policies contracting or expanding welfare support. Fourteen studies also evaluated the impact on mental health ...

New Evidence Shows Larger Benefits of Disability Insurance Income

For example, Autor and Duggan (2007) write, “The SSDI program has provided benefits exclusively on a work-contingent basis, so income and substitution effects ...

Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and ...

This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the disabled (relative to those on UI). We ...

Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the ...

We also show the decline in the number of older working age men receiving disability benefits to have been partially offset by growth in the number of younger ...

An evidence-based path to disability insurance reform

Spending on disability benefits through the federal Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) programs has increased ...

Dismantling the Poverty Trap: Disability Policy for the Twenty-First ...

Indeed, the implementation of such reforms may be the only way to protect people with disabilities from the probable loss of benefits if the federal government ...

The government's proposed benefits reforms are a worrying step ...

Plans for benefits reforms will further restrict access to health and disability benefits for people with mental health problems.

Disability Benefit Reform in Great Britain with Lessons ... - UMD CIPE

The article then examines data from the implementation of the ESA program and reviews research on its effects. The final section presents lessons for the reform ...

Social Security Disability Insurance is Vital to Workers With Severe ...

That's true regardless of whether the worker retires early (thereby collecting an even smaller monthly benefit) or continues to work until the ...

How disability insurance reforms change the consequences of ...

An important component of the reforms was to make employers responsible for paying sickness benefits and to strengthen their sickness monitoring obligations.