Income-Loss Protection Against Short-Term Sickness, 1948–63
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Although American workers received substantially greater benefits in 1963 than euer before under private a,nd public cash sickness plans, the ,replacenzent of aggregate earnings lost because of short-tewn sickness has leve7cd off at slightly less than 30 percent in recent years. These and other developments of the 15 yea,rs since 1948, when the Social Security Ad&n&ration began co77ecti~~g statistics for this series: are reported in the following pages.
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