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GRMF20-02: Filling in the Gap: The Role of Employer-provided DI
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)The risk of disability for workers is not trivial. While many workers rely on public disability programs such as the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) to protect them against disability risk, these programs do ... -
Incentives for Home- and Community-Based Care Under the Affordable Care Act: Implications for SSI Receipt
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)One in three 65-year-olds will require long term care at some point in their lives. Most nursing home stays cost over $3,500 a month, an expense that eventually exhausts the financial resources of most families. Medicaid ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
JSIT22-05: Family Caregiving at Older Ages: Implications for Adult Children by Race and Ethnicity
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)As the demography ages, the demand for family care is expected to rise rapidly in the United States. Due to lower access to quality formal care and differences in norms and traditions, minority populations rely more ... -
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 ... -
WI19-04: Frictions in Saving and Claiming: An Analysis of Unclaimed Retirement Accounts
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Retirees today face significant challenges in preparing for retirement, as they face greater responsibility in managing their savings. Savings is particularly important in light of longer lives and potential policy changes ... -
WI21-08: Employment Shocks, Unemployment Insurance, and Caregiving
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Working Americans are increasingly taking on various caregiving roles for family members. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of job loss and income supports on the labor supply, economic well-being, and caregiving ... -
WI22-01: The Effect of Childhood Public Policies on Adult Work Disability
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)This study estimates the impact of childhood exposure to three welfare-enhancing policies – Medicaid, Food Stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – on work disability in adulthood. Work disability is richly ... -
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 ... -
WI23-05: The Effect of Public Policies on Work: Disability: A Life Course Perspective
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)Our study estimates the impact of exposure to three welfare-enhancing policies—Medicaid, Food Stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)—throughout the life course on individuals experiencing work disability in later ... -
WI23-10: Improving Financial Security for People with Disabilities: The Promise of ABLE Accounts
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)A burgeoning literature documents ways that programmatic barriers hinder efforts by individuals to obtain needed public benefits, and otherwise harm recipients of public aid. The $2,000 resource limit on countable financial ... -
WI23-11: Work-Related Injuries and Older Workers: Earnings, Labor Supply, Program Participation, and Retirement
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)The majority of older workers have jobs that require some physical effort, and one-quarter experience a new disability after age 55. Roughly 25 percent of these work-limiting disabilities are incurred on the job. Work-related ...