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Women and Disability Insurance: Five Facts You Should Know
Many overall trends that sometimes provoke criticism can be better understood in light of women's rising role in the program.
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Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) program provides modest but vital benefits to workers who can no longer do substantial work due to a severe medical impairment.
We work to ensure that the program is adequately funded and to analyze reform proposals to determine their impact on the program’s long-term solvency and its beneficiaries.
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Retirement Savings Bill Should Improve Financial Security for Low-Income Elderly, Disabled People
Policymakers can correct one of the most egregious anti-savings provisions in federal law by raising Supplemental Security Income (SSI) asset limits as part of upcoming retirement savings...
Economic Legislation Should Include Key Measures for People With Disabilities
As policymakers craft an economic package for enactment this year, they should include policy proposals for people with disabilities that would allow many more disabled people to access affordable...
Build Back Better Reduces Racial Disparities
The House Build Back Better (BBB) legislation takes important steps to address racial disparities rooted in this nation’s long history of racism and discrimination, which has created large gaps in...
House Build Back Better Legislation Advances Racial Equity
The Build Back Better legislation approved by various House committees would help drive a more equitable recovery by making investments in children, workers, and health care that will enable more...
House Build Back Better Legislation Advances Racial Equity
The Build Back Better legislation approved by various House committees would help drive a more equitable recovery by making investments in children, workers, and health care that will enable more...
The Case for Updating and Simplifying Supplemental Security Income
As Congress considers economic recovery legislation, it should seize the opportunity to update and simplify Supplemental Security...
Policymakers Can Expand SSI to Cut Poverty for Seniors and People With Disabilities
As policymakers consider economic recovery legislation, they should seize the opportunity to expand and simplify the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, as we have recommended. The House Ways...
After Decades of Neglect, It’s Time to Rebuild SSI
As policymakers craft economic recovery legislation later this year, they should include measures to expand and simplify the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides monthly...
Policymakers Should Expand and Simplify Supplemental Security Income
SSI benefits are critical for those who need them, but SSI is woefully out of...
People Who Seek Disability Benefits Face Health, Economic Challenges
People who seek Social Security disability benefits face many financial, social, and health challenges, a recent study confirms, rebutting any notion that applicants who are denied benefits can shrug...