Tag: disability
Abstract The marked increase in male longevity and the shrinking gap in male-female life expectancy in recent decades should improve the financial outcomes of older women, but this improvement may be dampened if the growth in medical spending and the incidence of disability translates to living husbands burdening the family’s budget. Using the Health and…
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…
