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Growth in Disability Benefits

Explanations and Policy Implications

Kalman Rupp, Social Security Administration
David C. Stapleton, The Lewin Group, Editors
 

This collection of original papers reveals why caseloads of the nation's two largest income entitlement programs for disability - Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - have soared.

Using the Social Security Administration's own data, the authors are able to point to factors that are contributing to the programs' growth including program design, changing demographics, the labor market, and the interaction with other programs in the nation's social safety net.

The book's 21 essays are divided into three groups. The first presents empirical analyses of the national experience. The second group offers a close look at state and local experiences with disability programs. The third group of essays presents perspectives on program growth and policy from participants in the disability community.

While the contributors to this volume see the need for change to preserve the system, they uniformly speak for incremental change, not a sea change, to ensure that an especially vulnerable portion of our population remains protected.

"This volume makes a solid contribution. It presents complex research findings in an understandable way and complements those findings with the real-world experiences of people who administer the programs at the state and local level." Monroe Berkowitz, Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Table of Contents

  • Introduction - Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton

    PART I - Empirical Analyses of the National Experience

  • Econometric Analyses of DI and SSI Application and Award Growth - David C. Stapleton, Kevin A. Coleman, Kimberly A. Dietrich, and Gina A. Livermore, with comments by Edward Yelin, Paul Cullinan, and Richard G. Frank
  • The Impact of Health Care Costs and Medicaid on SSI Participation - Aaron Yelowitz, with comments by Barbara Wolfe
  • Determinants of Duration on the Disability Rolls and Program Trends - Kalman Rupp and Charles G. Scott, with comments by Daniel Mont
  • Characteristics of SSI and DI Recipients in the Years Prior to Receiving Benefits: Evidence from the PSID - Mary C. Daly, with comments by Daniel Mont and Virginia Reno

    PART II - A Closer Look at State and Local Experiences

  • The Growth in Disability Programs as Seen by SSA Field Office Managers - L. Scott Muller and Peter M. Wheeler, with comments by Barbara Henry Bordelon
  • The Ending of General Assistance and SSI Disability Growth in Michigan - John Bound, Sherrie Kossoudji, and Gema Ricart-Moes, with comments by Barbara Henry Bordelon
  • Lessons from the Case Studies of Recent Program Growth in Five States - Gina Livermore, David C. Stapleton, and Andrea Zeuschner, with comments by Martha R. Burt and Barbara Henry Bordelon

    • PART III - Perspective on Program Growth and Policy

  • Growth in Federal Disability Programs and Implications for Policy - Gilbert Fisher and Melinda Upp
  • The View from the Trenches
    a. The View from SSA's Philadelphia Regional Office - Larry Massanari
    b. The View from SSA's New Hampshire District Office - Celeste Hemingson
    c. The View from Michigan's Office of Disability Determination - Charles Jones
  • Policy Responses to Program Growth
    a. The Perspective of a Public Trustee - Stanford G. Ross
    b. Unsustainable Growth: Preserving Disability Programs for Americans with Disabilities - Andrew I. Batavia
    c. Policy Implications of Growth in Beneficiaries with Mental Illness - Howard H. Goldman
    d. The Need for Policy Change and the Range of Options - Jane L. Ross
    e. Policy Changes to Improve Market Outcomes - Carolyn L. Weaver
  • Employment Policy
    a. Return to Work for SSI and DI Beneficiaries: Employment Policy Challenges - Susan M. Daniels and Jane West
    b. Policies to Make Work Pay for People with Disabilities - Richard V. Burkhauser
    c. Private Sector Disability Management Activities and the Social Security Disability Program - Patricia M. Owens
    d. The Promise and Limitations of Employment Policies for Current SSI Recipients - Craig Thornton
  • Summing Up: Reflections on the Past and Future of Disability Policy - Richard V. Burkhauser
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    • 435 pp. 1998
    $68 cloth ISBN 0-88099-188-7 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-188-9
    $27 paper ISBN 0-88099-187-9 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-187-2.

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