Tag: disability
The CRR Issue in Brief “Why Did Disability Insurance Allowance Rates Rise in the Great Recession?” has been temporarily removed from our website, because the analysis (using sample data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation) shows allowance rates that consistently differ from the Social Security Administration’s more comprehensive administrative data. We will soon…
Abstract As interest in proposals to restore Social Security solvency rises, it’s timely to examine whether current policy analyses provide adequate information on important distributional questions. This project explores measures of changes in Social Security benefits’ adequacy, horizontal equity, and efficiency under different proposals. We apply the measures to simulation output from the Urban Institute’s…
