Social Security News

      From What Factors Explain the Drop in Disability Insurance Rolls from 2015 to 2019? by Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby for the Center f...

      According to a recent study 54% of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 read below the equivalent of a sixth grade education.     ...

  From the OECD . Click on image to view full size

      Take a look at this academic study, Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance by Manasi Deshpande of the ...

      In 2018 the House Social Security Subcommittee requested that the Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB) examine Social Security's ...

      From an interview with Pamela Herd, a public policy professor at Georgetown University and the co-author of Administrative Burdens: ...

     The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has scheduled what they call " a conversation with some of the nation’s top disab...

     Social Security has posted a  job opening for the Deputy Associate Commissioner for Disability Policy position.  This is in the Seni...

     An a nnouncement from Social Security : So cial Security’s National Disability Forum, Enhancing the Reconsiderati...

     From The Hill: Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) introduced a bill that addresses many of the [Social Security disability] program’s fun...

     From the Times Record which may be in Fort Smith Arkansas, although that's hard to tell from the newspaper's website (emph...

     Can anyone help me interpret this report from the Social Security Bulletin on variation in Social Security disability participation ?...

     From the Social Security Administration: Social Security’s National Disability Forum is April 18 at 1100 New York Avenue in Washing...

     From Trends in SSDI Benefit Receipt: Are More Recent Birth Cohorts Entering Sooner and Receiving Benefits Longer? by Yonatan Ben-Sha...

     From Politico : Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s budget director, walked into the Oval Office in early May on a longshot ...

     Lakshmi K. Raut has written a research piece for the Social Security Bulletin, the agency's scholarly publication, on exits from ...

     From Kathy Ruffing at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities : Labor-force participation — the share of adults 16 and older wh...

     Someone posted this comment on this blog recently: Not everyone can be Stephen Hawking ALS or not, that is a once in a generation m...

     From Donald Trump's budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 (page 111), which begins on October 1, 2017. Reform Disability ...

     The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has a report up on 4 Reasons Why Disability Insurance Is Especially Important to Le...