Caught in a Social Safety Net: Perspectives of Recipients of Social Security Disability Programs on Employment

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie F. Olney
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Disability Benefit ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medical Benefits ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Social Security Disability

It is estimated that 15-30 percent of people who are on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) disability benefit programs would like to work. However, despite a number of incentives, few leave benefit programs and become employed. A qualitative study with SSA recipients, all of whom expressed a desire to work, was conducted to augment findings from previous quantitative studies. The most common barrier to employment mentioned by participants was the SSA system itself which was viewed as an institution breeding fear and mistrust. Respondents identified three scenarios that would allow them to work: a full-time job with medical benefits, a part-time job that would allow them to maintain SSA benefits, or a full-time job with sufficient income to afford medical benefits.

Caught in the Net: The Impact of Changes to Canadian Employment Insurance Legislation on Part-time Workers

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norene Pupo ◽  
Ann Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Employment Insurance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Insurance Programme ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
The Impact

Throughout Western highly industrialised countries, there has been a marked shift toward more conservative social policies signalling a dismantling of the welfare state as part of the process of globalisation. This paper examines the aetiology of the (un)employment insurance programme in the Canadian context. Recently, legislators have tightened eligibility rules, lowered earnings replacement rates and altered coverage requirements. While these changes signal a shredding of the social safety net, they differentially impact on certain segments of the population. Despite official pronouncements of fairness, employment insurance changes intensify the subordination women experience in the paid labour force.

scholarly journals Work incentives in the Social Security Disability benefit formula

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
GOPI SHAH GODA ◽  
JOHN B. SHOVEN ◽  
SITA NATARAJ SLAVOV
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Disability Benefit ◽  
Payroll Tax ◽  
Payroll Taxes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Disability ◽  
Work Disincentives ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractWe examine the connection between taxes paid and benefits accrued under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program on both the intensive and extensive margins. We perform these calculations for stylized workers given the existing benefit structure and disability hazard rates. On the intensive margin, we examine the effect of an additional dollar of earnings on the marginal payroll taxes contributed and future benefits earned. We find that the present discounted value of disability benefits received from an additional dollar of earnings, net of the SSDI payroll tax, generally declines with age, becoming negative around age 40 and reaching almost zero at age 63. On the extensive margin, we determine the effect of working an additional year on the additional payroll taxes and future benefits as a percentage of income. The return to working an additional year at an income level just large enough to earn Social Security credits for the year is large and positive through age 60. However, the return to working an additional full year is substantially smaller and becomes negative at approximately age 57. Thus, older workers face strong incentives to earn enough to obtain creditable coverage through age 60, but they face disincentives for additional earnings. In addition, workers aged 61 and older face work disincentives at any level of earnings. We repeat this analysis for stylized workers at different levels of earnings and find that, while the program transfers resources from high earners to low earners, the workers experience similar patterns in the returns to working.

scholarly journals 2Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Brown ◽  
Julia Lynn Coronado ◽  
Don Fullerton
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Brown ◽  
Julia Lynn Coronado ◽  
Don Fullerton
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Social

Checks

Paid ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Servon
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Older Americans ◽  
Retirement System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Security Checks ◽  
Security Check

In 1940, the first monthly Social Security payment in the form of a paper check was issued. Social Security was established by the United States government as a universal retirement system for workers. The Social Security check became a symbol of the social safety net for older Americans, and the relation of that safety to a lifetime of compulsory productivity. Over the years, there has been much innovation in the physical properties of Social Security checks, as well the systems that produce, distribute, and cash them. The Social Security, check, however, will soon become a thing of the past. With or without their cooperation, recipients are being transitioned to electronic direct deposit systems.

scholarly journals Social Security Policies in Connection with Sustainable Economic Growth in the Period 2011-2020

2014 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 02-16
Author(s):  
Cường Mai Ngọc
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Risk Prevention ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Synchronous Development ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
Limited Coverage

The paper shows that the Vietnam’s system of social security policies during its reforms increasingly supports risk prevention, mitigation and management, positively contributing to the implementation of targets for human development. This system, however, reveals many shortcomings, such as its limited coverage and low impact on beneficiaries. Since the system, in which all citizens are guaranteed to be engaged, should assure people’s fundamental needs and increase its scope of impact, greater accountability of involved parties is required. Additionally, on the basis of synchronous development of all components of the social safety net, it is vital that the policy model, organizations in operation and/or services and finance resources providers be diversified and that the development of social security policies be attached to economic and social development.

scholarly journals Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Benefit Formula

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopi Shah Goda ◽  
John Shoven ◽  
Sita Slavov
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Work Incentives ◽  
Disability Benefit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Disability

scholarly journals Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Brown ◽  
Julia Lynn Coronado ◽  
Don Fullerton
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Social
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