Archive: Denise Hoffman

Man with one leg working in a factory

Abstract This paper reexamines impacts from the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) to explore previously unexamined racial differences in participant outcomes.  It examines whether the impacts of BOND differed by participants’ race/ethnicity and the extent to which community-level racial inequities in economic conditions are correlated with participant outcomes that were central to BOND’s goals.  It…

Senior man working at laptop at home

Abstract This paper examines the experiences of former Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) beneficiaries in the years following termination of benefits due to medical improvement or work.  It uses data from the 2019 Disability Analysis File to identify return to DI or subsequent participation in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program within 5 or 10…