The disability freeze provisions of the Social Security Act became eflective July 1, 1955. Their administration was still evolving when the amendments of August 1956 added provisions for cash disability benefits to insured persons aged SO-64 and for benefits to dependent children aged 18 or over who became totally disabled before they reached age 18. The experience of the Bureau of Old-Age and ...

R ETIREMENT benefits for workers aged 65 and over are payable under the old-age and survivors insurance program. A test of retirement is provided by the Social Security Act to ensure that only those older persons who have substantially retired from their jobs will receive old-age and survivors insurance benefits. The Social Security Amendments of 1954 made major changes in the retirement test. ...

Introduction Many countries have adopted old age systems that include individual accounts—funded, privately managed defined contribution plans. Such a system has been under discussion in the US. It is particularly difficult to figure out how to incorporate disability benefits into a social security system with a defined contribution component, since disabled people may not work long enough to a...

This paper uses longitudinal data from the Dutch OSA Labor Supply Panel (1980-2000) to examine the phenomenon of unemployment scarring in the Netherlands. The study extends current research by not only asking if earlier unemployment damages subsequent employment careers and wages but also explores variation by the level of unemployment insurance benefits and key individual characteristics such ...