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The Case for Updating SSI Asset Limits
Raising or eliminating asset limits would reduce administrative burdens without dramatically increasing enrollment.
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Policy Basics
Social Security’s Disability Insurance (SSDI) 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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Decline in Labor-Force Participation Not Due to Disability Programs
Labor-force participation — the share of adults 16 and older who are working or looking for work — peaked at just over 67 percent in 1996-2000 and has fallen since then. Some analysts observe...
Why You Should Care About Social Security Disability Insurance
Sixty-one years ago today, President Eisenhower signed a bill creating Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Many Americans don’t know much about this vital program — even though, by...
Previewing the Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ Reports
The Social Security and Medicare trustees will release their annual reports on the programs’ finances tomorrow and, though we don’t know how the projections may change from last year’s, we...
SNAP Helps Millions with Disabilities
Some House Republicans are reportedly considering major cuts to SNAP (formerly food stamps) to help pay for tax cuts, and President Trump’s budget proposes major SNAP cuts. So it’s a good time to...
GOP Health Bill’s Medicaid Cuts Threaten Care for People with Disabilities
The House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) would threaten Medicaid coverage and access to care for millions of people with disabilities and their families. It would...
Recent Proposals Threaten Basic Needs and Independence for People with Disabilities
President Trump and some Republican members of Congress are considering cuts that would make it harder for millions of people with disabilities to afford the basics — food on the table, a roof over...
President’s Budget Would Hurt People with Disabilities
President Trump’s 2018 budget would make it harder for millions of people with disabilities to afford the basics — food on the table, a roof over their heads, and access to health...
SSI: A Lifeline for Children with Disabilities
Supplemental Security Income is the only source of federal income support targeted to families caring for children with disabilities, and it reaches only the lowest-income and most severely impaired...
4 Reasons Why Disability Insurance Is Especially Important to Less-Educated Workers
Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) — which pays modest but vital benefits to people with severe and long-lasting medical impairments who can no longer support themselves by working — is...
Trump’s Budget Director Gets Social Security Disability Insurance Wrong
President Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, issued a series of falsehoods about Social Security Disability Insurance during a recent...