Text analysis of data collected from online forum conversations, a form of user-generated content (UGC), reveals that Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and recipients, the “customers,” share concerns ...

Health insurance marketplaces, a.k.a. “exchanges”, were established through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to facilitate individual access to affordable health insurance following the implementation of the individual ...

A key question that this study aims to explore is whether Social Security income payment timing affects financial shortfalls. We would expect that pay cycle would not affect likelihood of financial shortfall. However, this ...

This study examines the first implemented state-run retirement program (Auto IRA) in Oregon (OregonSaves) in 2017 and provides early evidence of the significant impact on saving for retirement among uncovered private worker. ...

Latinx people have substantially less wealth than non-Latinx, White persons in the United States. One underexplored mechanism behind this wealth gap is healthcare coverage. This study asked: How does healthcare insurance ...

With data on occupational task content from O*NET and ORS and survey data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), we document how the physical, cognitive, routine, ...

Older adult homeowners increasingly carry mortgage debt into retirement. The share of homeowners aged 65 and older with outstanding mortgages doubled between 1989 and 2016, while the outstanding loan-to-value ratio tripled ...

Society’s growing reliance on technology to transfer private information has created more opportunities for identity thieves to access personal data. Research on identity theft, specifically among older adults, is virtually ...

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 ...

Medicaid is a necessary source of supplemental healthcare coverage for Social Security beneficiaries, however, there are various regulations in place regarding eligibility to receive Medicaid for these low-income people ...