Browsing by Subject "I38"
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Child Care for Families Raising Children with Disabilities: The Role of Federal Policy in Equitable Access
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Despite consistent evidence that families with children with disabilities face great difficulty in balancing employment and caregiving, little is known about the role federal policies play in supporting employment of parents ... -
IRP20-01: Criminal Justice Involvement and Well-Being in Old Age
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)This paper uses data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records Systems linked with survey and administrative data sources from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide the first evidence on the looming retirement crisis ... -
JSIT20-01: Direct and Spillover Effects of Child Supplemental Security Income
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Children having a sibling with a disability are often disadvantaged as parents need to divert a high proportion of their resources, time, and energy on the child with a disability in the family (Abrams, 2009). Prior research ... -
JSIT20-04: The Effect of Insurance Expansion on SSI Participation: Evidence from the ACA
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Before states expanded their Medicaid programs, low-income adults without dependent children were typically only eligible for Medicaid insurance coverage through the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI) due to a ... -
JSIT21-01: The Effect of the SSI Student Earned Income Exclusion on Education and Labor Supply
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)The SSI program pays about $50 billion per year to 8.7 million low-income, disabled or aged Americans, but it requires recipients to earn less than $1,673 per month to remain eligible. This income threshold can be particularly ... -
WI19-01: Economic Opportunity and Spatial Variation in Labor Force Participation, Self-Reported Disability Status and Demand for SSI/SSDI
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Both self-reported disability and receipt of federal disability assistance (SSI and SSDI) vary substantially across U.S. counties. This project examines whether and to what extent spatial variation in economic opportunit ... -
WI19-07: Housing Assistance and SSI Caseload Shifting
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)From 2009 to 2016, SSI caseloads increased by 9%, with 4.8 million prime-aged recipients in 2016. Over the same time period, TANF caseloads declined by 11%, reaching 1.5 million in 2016. Both programs provide cash-assistance ... -
WI20-Q1: Determinants of the Use of Supplemental Security Income by American Indian and Alaska Natives
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) participate in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program at about twice the rate of the general population. Despite experiencing some of the worst poverty and mortality rates ... -
WI21-Q1: Access to a Local Public Housing Authority Office and SSI Participation
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)This project seeks to understand what types of counties have a brick-and-mortar local Public Housing Authority (PHA). Since there are more people eligible for housing assistance than there are benefits available, allocations ... -
WI22-03: Family Proximity and Co-Residence in Retirement Heterogeneity in Residential Changes Across Older Adults’ Care Contexts
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)Residential changes to live near or with family can facilitate caregiving for children and older adults, along with other supports, but family-based residential changes could also have implications for economic security ... -
WI22-06: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in SSA and Means-Tested Benefit Receipt and Their Anti-Poverty Effects for Children in Multigenerational Families
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)A growing share of children reside in households with caregivers, often their grandparents, who are not their biological parents or in three-generation households that include one or both of their parents as well as one ... -
WI22-12: Health, Health Insurance, and Financial Security
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)The recent rise in economic hardship highlights the need to prepare for financial emergencies. Even before the pandemic, many lacked savings for unexpected expenses, retirement, or other goals; many experienced financial ...