TY - RPRT T1 - Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement Y1 - 2010 A1 - Richard W. Johnson A1 - Melissa Favreault A1 - Corina D Mommaerts KW - Disabilities KW - Employment and Labor Force KW - Public Policy KW - Social Security AB - 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. PB - The Urban Institute UR - http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412008_work_ability.pdf?RSSFeed=UI_RetirementandOlderAmericans.xml U4 - social Security Disability Insurance/Public Policy/DISABILITY/DISABILITY/workers compensation/workers compensation/Supplemental Security Income/labor Force Participation ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Employment, Social Security, and Future Retirement Outcomes for Single Mothers Y1 - 2003 A1 - Richard W. Johnson A1 - Melissa Favreault A1 - Joshua H. Goldwyn KW - Expectations KW - Social Security KW - Women and Minorities PB - Chestnut Hill, MA, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College U4 - Social Security/Women, Working/Retirement Expectations ER - TY - CHAP T1 - The Family, Social Security, and the Retirement Decision T2 - Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System Y1 - 2002 A1 - Melissa Favreault A1 - Richard W. Johnson ED - Melissa Favreault ED - Sammartino, F. ED - Steuerle, C. Eugene KW - Adult children KW - Social Security JF - Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System PB - The Urban Institute Press CY - Washington, DC N1 - RDA 1998-006 ProCite field 6 : Chapter 9 in ProCite field 8 : eds. U4 - Social Security/Family transfers, structure JO - The Family, Social Security, and the Retirement Decision ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Modeling Income in the Near Term: Revised Projections of Retirement Income Through 2020 for the 1931-1960 Birth Cohorts Y1 - 2002 A1 - Toder, Eric A1 - Thompson, Lawrence H. A1 - Melissa Favreault A1 - Richard W. Johnson A1 - Perese, Kevin A1 - Ratcliffe, Caroline A1 - Karen E. Smith A1 - Cori E. Uccello A1 - Timothy A Waidmann A1 - Berk, Jillian A1 - Woldemariam, Romina A1 - Gary T. Burtless A1 - Claudia R Sahm A1 - Douglas A. Wolf KW - Disabilities KW - Net Worth and Assets KW - Pensions KW - Social Security AB - 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. JF - Urban Institute Research Report PB - The Urban Institute CY - Washington, D.C. UR - http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410609_ModelingIncome.pdf N1 - RDA 1998-006 U4 - Earnings and Benefits File/Disability/Disability/Pensions/Wealth ER -