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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
President’s Budget Would Hurt People With Disabilities
President Trump’s 2021 budget would make it harder for millions of people with disabilities to afford such basics as food, housing, and health care by cutting tens of billions of dollars from...
Social Security Disability Insurance Still Shrinking
Applications and benefit awards for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) fell again in 2019, new data show, adding to the significant declines since 2010 (see graph). Total SSDI enrollment...
Senate Bill Would Cut Social Security Operations Again
This summer’s budget deal between President Trump and congressional leaders offers enough total discretionary dollars to give the Social Security Administration (SSA) a much-needed funding boost in...