Tag: Social Security
The brief’s key findings are: This study provides a pre-COVID baseline on Social Security claiming. The percentage of all initial claimants who are age 62 shows a steady decline over the past two decades, interrupted only briefly by the Great Recession. However, a better metric to capture claiming behavior over time – when the population…
An unfortunate misperception about people on federal disability is that they’re not interested in working. In fact, nearly half of them want to work or expect to go back to work, and that share has been rising. But getting or keeping a job has proved difficult, and the employment rate is very low for peo…
