Tag: Social Security Disability
The brief’s key findings are: Jobless individuals tend to delay applying for disability insurance (SSDI) until their extended unemployment insurance (UI) runs out. Those who do apply for SSDI while still on unemployment are more likely to be approved, suggesting they are less healthy than those who delay. UI extensions do not appear to reduc…
Abstract Both unemployment insurance (UI) extensions and the availability of disability benefits have disincentive effects on job search. But UI extensions can reduce the efficiency cost of disability benefits if UI recipients delay disability application until they exhaust their unemployment benefits. This paper, the first to focus on the effect of UI extensions on disability…
