Tag: Social Security
To qualify for federal disability benefits, individuals must demonstrate that a medical condition prevents them from working. But some disability beneficiaries do work and those who earn more than Social Security allows are not entitled to a monthly benefit. These working beneficiaries may run the risk, often unwittingly, of being overpaid. The overpayments must…
This paper uses archival insurance industry data from the period 1861 to 1941 to shed light on ordinary life insurance, which was the primary old-age savings mechanism of American households in the era before Social Security…
