Disability, Work, and Cash Benefits.

Benefits in Cash

Disability benefits suspended or terminated because of work.

We use a new variable in the Social Security Administration's Ticket Research File to produce statistics on the first month of suspension or termination for work (STW) for Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)-only beneficiaries as well as on the number of months in nonpayment status following suspension or termination for work (NSTW) before their retu...

Providing long-term care benefits in cash: moving to a disability model.

This paper examines the role of a disability approach to the allocation of long-term care benefits. It first highlights the important elements of long-term care that support a disability model. It then reviews the advantages and disadvantages of this approach relative to the traditional indemnity model and summarizes key features of selected domestic and international programs that offer a disa...

Insomnia and work disability

Insomnia and work disability Børge Sivertsen (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway) presented data from a large, population-based health study that was linked to the official registry of the Norwegian National Insurance Administration [1]. The aim of the study was to estimate the direct effect of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV)-defined insomnia on permanent work disab...

Severity of Work Disability and Work

Severity of Work Disability and Work This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of persistence and unobserved heterogeneity, differences in severi...