* Commissioner of Social Security. SI G N I F I C A N T a n d far reaching changes i n the programs of oldage, survivors, a n d disability insurance, public assistance, a n d m a t e r nal a n d c h i l d h e a l t h a n d welfare were made by Publ ic L a w 85-840, signed by Pres ident E i s e n h o w e r o n August 28, 1958. Increases i n benefits under the old-age, survivors , a n d disabilit...

introduction: this research is planning to observe the influence of sense of social security on doctors’ social health in tehran. therefore, it seems that there is a meaningful relationship among doctors’ social health as a dependent variable, and sense of social security of doctors as the main independent variable. also, piety, life satisfaction, social morality and assessing by others as the ...

In its Annual Report the Social Security Administration urged enactment of a Federal program of disability insurance that would be coordinated with old-age and survivors insurance. At the same time, State employment security agencies and other groups have asked the Administration for advice in formulating a temporary disability program that would be coordinated with the State unemployment insur...

This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into five groups from private hospitals to charity ones. The data used herein was extracted from ...

When it was published on December1st 1942, Social Insurance and Allied Services, or as it was universally called, the Beveridge Report, was an instant and phenomenal success. It gives the criticism to the England resent social security system. The report pointed that each problem has been dealt with separately, with little or no reference to allied problem. And it causes each kind of social sec...

This paper develops dynamic structural models --an option value model and a dynamic programming model-of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins to affect the kind or amount of work that a currently employed person can do. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) augment...

An influential body of research studies the labor supply and earnings of denied Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants to estimate the potential employment and earnings of those awarded benefits. This research design implicitly treats employability as a stable applicant attribute that is not directly impacted by the process of applying for SSDI benefits. If, plausibly, applicant...

THE PURPOSE of a comprehensive program of social security is simple. Basically, it is to enable the working population to maintain economic independence throughout the cycle of family life by distributing the return from labor over the periods in which breadwinners can earn and those in which they cannot; at any one time, contributions made by the many who are subject to the risk are available ...

Excerpt] Harsh skepticism pervades current public debate about who deserves public support and on what basis, particularly regarding the claims of individuals with disabling illness and injury. Heretofore, these claims were accepted, even reservedly, and the needs of such individuals were considered to be legitimate even when they were monitored closely. The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) a...

In this paper, we track the level of economic well-being of the population of men who began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in 1980–81 from the time just after they became beneficiaries (in 1982) to 1991, nearly a decade later. We present measures of the economic well-being of disabled individuals and their nondisabled peers as indicators of the relative economic ...