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- Social Security Reform: The Importance of Disability Insurance and Annuities in Individual Accounts
- The current debate on reforming Social Security is focused almost exclusively on retiree benefits, and elected officials have generally said that disability benefits would be ôpreservedö or ôprotectedö under any reform plan that addresses the Social Security programÆs looming financial shortfall. However, in many cases when the Social Security Administration...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Employment Taxes?: What
- Social security and Medicare taxes pay for benefits that workers and families receive under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act FICA. Social security tax pays for benefits for the retired, survivors, and disability insurance distribution provisions of FICA. Medicare tax pays for benefits under the medical care provisions of FICA. As...
- White papers
- How Progressive Is Social Security When Old Age and Disability Insurance Are Treated as a Whole?
- For various reasons - including differences in life expectancy among groups and a benefit formula that progressively relates benefits to past earnings - Social Security can be said to "redistribute" lifetime income among different groups in the population. This paper builds on the discussion of progressivity in Straight Talk 37,...
- White papers 2004-05-01
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- Workers' Compensation: A Background for Social Security Professionals
- This paper provides a brief history and background of workers' compensation programs for occupationally injured and ill workers in the United States. It presents the basic principle involved in workers' compensation and briefly discusses the disability benefits to which workers are generally entitled. It also discusses why there are settlements...
- White papers 2005-06-06
- Social Security Reform: Analysis of Reform Models Developed by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.
- GAO-03-310 January 15, 2003 Social Security is an important social insurance program affecting virtually every American family. It represents a foundation of the nation's retirement income system and provides millions of Americans with disability insurance and survivors' benefits. Over the long term, as the baby boom generation retires,...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- Social Security Reform: Analysis of a Trust Fund Exhaustion Scenario Illustrates the Difficult Choices and the Need for Early Action.
- GAO-03-1038T July 29, 2003 Social Security is an important social insurance program affecting virtually every American family. It is the foundation of the nation's retirement income system and also provides millions of Americans with disability insurance and survivors' benefits. Over the long term, as the baby boom generation...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Consumption, Retirement And Social Security
- This paper explains the effect on individuals' retirement and consumption choices of a potential reform to the U.S. Social Security system. We first estimate the parameters of a life - cycle model. We assume intratemporally nonseparable preference orderings and the possibility of disability. The specification predicts a change in consumption...
- White papers 2006-12-16
- SSA: SSI and SSDI survey.(Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability Insurance)(Brief Article)
- SSA: SSI and SSDI survey. Information collection. The Social Security Administration has asked the Census Bureau to interview about 2,000 households containing people who receive Supplemental Security Income or Social Security ... SSA: SSI and SSDI survey. Information collection. The Social Security Administration...
- Research articles 2004-08-06
- The Value of Social Security Disability Insurance
- This paper goes beyond the analysis of Geanakoplos, Mitchell, and Zeldes by developing a methodology for estimating the insurance value of social security Disability Insurance SSDI, where the insurance value is defined as what an individual is willing to pay for it. In the paper, the insurance value of the...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance
- In order to understand whom among the non-disabled older population experiences a health problem later in life and applies for Social Security Disability Insurance DI, it is necessary to investigate patterns of coverage and reasons for non-coverage. While the safety net program covers most American workers, we use linked data...
- White papers 2001-03-08
- Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions
- This paper evaluates potential responses to reductions in early Social Security retirement benefits. Using the Health and Retirement Study HRS linked to administrative records, we find that Social Security coverage is quite uneven in the older population: one-quarter of respondents in their late 50's lacks coverage under the Disability Insurance...
- White papers 2001-03-08
- Statement by The AALJ National Executive Board on The Misuse of "Laptop Law" to Clear the Backlog of Social Security Disability Cases
- WASHINGTON -- Currently the nation's Social Security disability insurance program is struggling under a severe case backlog. In some parts of the country, claimants can wait more than two years for a hearing. According to the Government Accountability Office the backlog results primarily from increased applications, staffing shortages and management...
- Research articles 2008-08-15
- SSA: wage garnishment.(Federal Register)(Social Security Administration revises rules for garnishing wages)(Brief Article)
- SSA: Wage garnishment. Final rules. The Social Security Administration revises its procedures for garnishing wages as a way to recoup money owed by people who used to receive benefits under titles II (old age, survivors and disability insurance) an SSA: Wage garnishment. Final rules....
- Research articles 2004-01-09
- This Is the Season for Social Security Reform
- CPAs have a responsibility to speak out about FICA taxes. Social Security payroll taxes are collected under authority of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act FICA. The payroll taxes are sometimes even called "FICA taxes" or "Social Security taxes." According to the Congressional Budget Office, Social Security payments make up about...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Fiscal Effects Of Social Security Reform In The United States
- Any Social Security reform designed to improve the solvency of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance OASDI trust funds will automatically have a beneficial effect on Social Security program finances by cutting benefits or raising taxes (the "Mechanical" effect). But the reform may have an additional beneficial effect on program...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Socialized Medicine Is Coming
- Living4Dividends submits: Using the Government's own audited financial statements, the Peterson Foundation calculated the Federal Government’s total accumulated liabilities for Medicare and Social Security. As of the third quarter of 2008, the Federal Government had $56.4 trillion in total liabilities and unfunded promises. The future liabilities of the two progams...
- External links 2009-06-15
- The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity
- Disability status is increasingly used as a means for targeting resources in the United States. In 1999, 5.6 million disabled individuals and 1.6 million spouses and dependent children received a total of $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance DI benefits, representing over one-eighth of the Social Security budget for benefit payments....
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Task Force on Social Security, Committee on the Budget, U.S. Senate, November 20, 1997 - Statements to the Congress - Transcript
- Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Task Force on Social Security, Committee on the Budget, U.S. Senate, November 20, 1997I am pleased to appear here today to discuss one of our nation's most pressing challenges: putting Social Security's Federal Old-Age, Survivors,...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Fortis Benefits Ins. designs 2 cost-saving LTD options. (Fortis Benefits Insurance introduces new long-term disability insurance options)
- Fortis Benefits Insurance has added two new options to its long-term disability insurance LTD policies that it claims can reduce employers' group LTD costs by between 3% and 25%. The new options incorporate limits on plan designs to generate savings. The special conditions option reduces the maximum duration of benefits...
- Research articles 1993-06-28
- Disability Insurance: SSA Should Strengthen Its Efforts to Detect and Prevent Overpayments
- The Social Security Administration's SSA Disability Insurance DI program is one of the nation's largest cash assistance programs for disabled workers. In fiscal year 2003, the DI program provided about $70 billion in financial assistance to approximately 7.5 million disabled workers, their spouses, and dependent children. This program has grown...
- White papers 2004-09-01
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