@article {5823, title = {Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement}, year = {2010}, institution = {The Urban Institute}, abstract = {A patchwork of public programs primarily Social Security Disability Insurance, workers compensation, Supplemental Security Income, and veterans benefits provides income supports to people who are unable to work. Yet, questions persist about the effectiveness of these programs. This report examines the economic consequences of disability in the years leading to retirement. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, the analysis follows a sample of Americans age 51 to 55 in 1992 and computes their disability status, disability benefit receipt, and income until age 64, just before they qualify for full Social Security retirement benefits. The results underscore the precarious financial state of most people approaching traditional retirement age with disabilities. Fewer than half of people who meet our disability criteria ever receive disability benefits in their fifties or early sixties. Poverty rates for those who do are more than three times as high after benefit receipt than before disability onset.}, keywords = {Disabilities, Employment and Labor Force, Public Policy, Social Security}, url = {http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412008_work_ability.pdf?RSSFeed=UI_RetirementandOlderAmericans.xml}, author = {Richard W. Johnson and Melissa Favreault and Corina D Mommaerts} } @article {5573, title = {Employment, Social Security, and Future Retirement Outcomes for Single Mothers}, year = {2003}, institution = {Chestnut Hill, MA, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College}, keywords = {Expectations, Social Security, Women and Minorities}, author = {Richard W. Johnson and Melissa Favreault and Joshua H. Goldwyn} } @inbook {5178, title = {The Family, Social Security, and the Retirement Decision}, booktitle = {Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System}, year = {2002}, note = {RDA 1998-006 ProCite field 6 : Chapter 9 in ProCite field 8 : eds.}, pages = {295-329}, publisher = {The Urban Institute Press}, organization = {The Urban Institute Press}, address = {Washington, DC}, keywords = {Adult children, Social Security}, author = {Melissa Favreault and Richard W. Johnson}, editor = {Melissa Favreault and Sammartino, F. and Steuerle, C. Eugene} } @article {5525, title = {Modeling Income in the Near Term: Revised Projections of Retirement Income Through 2020 for the 1931-1960 Birth Cohorts}, year = {2002}, note = {RDA 1998-006}, institution = {The Urban Institute}, address = {Washington, D.C.}, abstract = {The Division of Policy Evaluation (DPE) of the Social Security Administration (SSA) has entered into two contracts with the Urban Institute to help it develop a new tool for analyzing the distributional consequences of Social Security reform proposals. The first, awarded in 1998, led to the development of Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT), a tool for simulating the retirement incomes of members of the Baby Boom and neighboring cohorts. The second, awarded in 2000, was to expand and improve on the first version of MINT. In all phases of the project, members of the research staff at SSA/DPE collaborated closely with the contractors. The Brookings Institution served as a subcontractor to the Urban Institute under both contracts and the RAND Corporation participated in the development of the initial version of MINT under a separate contract. This report describes the work of the researchers at Urban and Brookings under the second contract.}, keywords = {Disabilities, Net Worth and Assets, Pensions, Social Security}, url = {http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410609_ModelingIncome.pdf}, author = {Toder, Eric and Thompson, Lawrence H. and Melissa Favreault and Richard W. Johnson and Perese, Kevin and Ratcliffe, Caroline and Karen E. Smith and Cori E. Uccello and Timothy A Waidmann and Berk, Jillian and Woldemariam, Romina and Gary T. Burtless and Claudia R Sahm and Douglas A. Wolf} }