Tag: Social Security Disability

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This paper examines family representative payeeship provided to adults with mental illness. In-depth interviews were conducted with five beneficiaries with mental illness who have a family representative payee and seven family representative payees for this population. The qualitative descriptive method and thematic analysis were employed to examine satisfaction with, and conflict experienced in, family representativ…

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In the three decades from 1980 to 2010, there was a steady rise in the number of men receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits.  The number of beneficiaries peaked in 2012 and has declined significantly since the end of the Great Recession, tracking very closely the (pre-pandemic) fall in the national unemployment rate and…