Cash benefits for short-term sickness: thirty-five years of data, 1948-83.

*Office of Research, Statistics, and International Policy, Office of Policy. Social Security Administration. made to replace such lost income totaled $16.4 billion, or 36 percent of the loss. This degree of protection against income loss from short-term sickness has been about the same since 1970. The number of workers protected by formal plans providing cash benefits for sickness in 1983 rose to 59 million, or almost twothirds of all wage and salary workers, a reflection of the economic upswing during that year.