Enhancing Social Security for Low-Income Workers: Coordinating an Enhanced Special Minimum Benefit with Social Safety Net Provisions for Seniors

The functioning of the U.S. social safety net as a support for low-income families depends on various means-tested programs and a system of both public agencies and nonprofit organizations. Using in-depth interviews ( n = 5) and a survey of nonprofit employees ( n = 73), we seek to understand the role of nonprofits in promoting equitable access to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Our findings reveal that public assistance programs are a necessary support for families, but that access is not always easy or equitable, and nonprofits form a protective layer of support providing resources and guidance for those most in need. Implications for policy and partnerships between the various components of the social safety net are discussed.

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Paid ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262035750.003.0002 ◽

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.

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This is Lebanon ... A Loaded Phrase

Al-Raida Journal ◽

10.32380/alrj.v0i0.55 ◽

1970 ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

Thomas Hornig

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Safety Net ◽

Social Safety Net ◽

Residence Permit ◽

Retirement Benefits ◽

Work Permit ◽

Catch 22 ◽

The Law

When I explain that I’ve had eighteen continuous years of residence in Lebanon; eighteen years as a professor at the Lebanese National Conservatory of Music; eighteen years of marriage to a Lebanese woman; eighteen years of demeaning and costly work permit/ residence permit renewals; eighteen years of living with no social safety net, no social security, no protection under the law, and no retirement beneﬁts; the hair-trigger response is always the same: “This is Lebanon”. This very loaded phrase is the ultimate deal-breaker. It implies apathy, frustration, a painful past and hopelessness. For a foreigner like me it represents an impasse, a ‘catch 22’.

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

Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling ◽

10.1891/0047-2220.38.2.5 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 5-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

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.

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The Great Recession and the Social Safety Net

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ◽

10.1177/0002716213499532 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 650 (1) ◽

pp. 143-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Robert A. Moffitt

Keyword(s):

Income Distribution ◽

Low Income ◽

Great Recession ◽

Poverty Line ◽

Safety Net ◽

Social Safety Net ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

The Great Recession ◽

The Social ◽

Per Capita

The social safety net responded in significant and favorable ways during the Great Recession. Aggregate per capita expenditures in safety net programs grew significantly, with particularly strong growth in the SNAP, EITC, UI, and Medicaid programs. The increase in transfers was widely shared across demographic groups, including families with and without children, and single-parent and two-parent families. Transfers grew as well among families with more employed members and with fewer employed members. In the low-income population, however, the increase in transfer amounts was not strongly progressive across income classes, with transfers to those just below or above the poverty line increasing slightly, compared to those at the bottom of the income distribution. This was mainly because of the EITC program, which provides greater benefits to those with higher family earnings. The expansions of SNAP and UI benefitted those at the bottom of the income distribution to a greater extent.

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

Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies ◽

10.24311/jabes/2014.222.01 ◽

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.

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MASALAH KESEJAHTERAAN SOSIAL MIGRAN

Sosio Informa ◽

10.33007/inf.v8i2.992 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Nina Karinina

Keyword(s):

Social Welfare ◽

Social Services ◽

Low Income ◽

Low Cost ◽

Safety Net ◽

Social Safety Net ◽

The Social ◽

Rice Price ◽

Children Education

This paper concerned with the condition of the social welfare problems of the low incomemigrants living in Prawirodirjan Yogyakarta. The case study of that migrants showed that theirmain social welfare problems related to low income for supporting their family , such as children education fee, and inappropriate house to stay. Although they tried to cope with those problems, but most of them had no successful yet. Social services both from local and national government had not been specially programmed for them. Nevertheless, some of them gained several services which were integrated in public social welfare programmes through "social safety net programmes" in the form of health services, school fee , low cost rice price, etc.Key Words: empowering, social welfare, migrant.

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