Tag: social security beneficiaries
Understanding the Characteristics and Needs of Tribal Community Members for Social Security Delivery
This paper examines the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) ongoing efforts to strengthen its relationship with tribal communities across the U.S. We conducted a descriptive study of service delivery to tribal communities using information from a comprehensive literature review, an analysis of individual- and household-level data from the American Community Survey (ACS), SSA office location data,…
This paper compares Social Security outcomes for non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white beneficiaries and assesses the capacity of various benefit enhancements to narrow racial and ethnic disparities in Social Security benefits. Using the Dynamic Simulation of Income Model 4 (DYNASIM4), we project, under current law and each benefit enhancement, lifetime Social Security benefits…