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 ...

The disability criteria used to determine Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility varies by age. For people under age 65, SSI is a means-tested disability program; for people aged 65 and older, the disability ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) both play an important role in the assistance offered to low-income households with disabilities, but the interaction of these programs is largely ...

Despite population aging, the nursing home population has declined since the 1980s. Recent surveys indicate most older adults prefer to “age in place” rather than move into an institution and, since the 1990s, the share ...

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 ...