%0 Report %D 2010 %T Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement %A Richard W. Johnson %A Melissa Favreault %A Corina D Mommaerts %K Disabilities %K Employment and Labor Force %K Public Policy %K Social Security %X 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. %I The Urban Institute %G eng %U http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412008_work_ability.pdf?RSSFeed=UI_RetirementandOlderAmericans.xml %4 social Security Disability Insurance/Public Policy/DISABILITY/DISABILITY/workers compensation/workers compensation/Supplemental Security Income/labor Force Participation %$ 25960 %0 Report %D 2003 %T Employment, Social Security, and Future Retirement Outcomes for Single Mothers %A Richard W. Johnson %A Melissa Favreault %A Joshua H. Goldwyn %K Expectations %K Social Security %K Women and Minorities %I Chestnut Hill, MA, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College %G eng %4 Social Security/Women, Working/Retirement Expectations %$ 13352 %0 Book Section %B Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System %D 2002 %T The Family, Social Security, and the Retirement Decision %A Melissa Favreault %A Richard W. Johnson %E Melissa Favreault %E Sammartino, F. %E Steuerle, C. Eugene %K Adult children %K Social Security %B Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System %I The Urban Institute Press %C Washington, DC %P 295-329 %G eng %4 Social Security/Family transfers, structure %$ 8660 %! The Family, Social Security, and the Retirement Decision %0 Report %D 2002 %T Modeling Income in the Near Term: Revised Projections of Retirement Income Through 2020 for the 1931-1960 Birth Cohorts %A Toder, Eric %A Thompson, Lawrence H. %A Melissa Favreault %A Richard W. Johnson %A Perese, Kevin %A Ratcliffe, Caroline %A Karen E. Smith %A Cori E. Uccello %A Timothy A Waidmann %A Berk, Jillian %A Woldemariam, Romina %A Gary T. Burtless %A Claudia R Sahm %A Douglas A. Wolf %K Disabilities %K Net Worth and Assets %K Pensions %K Social Security %X 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. %B Urban Institute Research Report %I The Urban Institute %C Washington, D.C. %G eng %U http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410609_ModelingIncome.pdf %L wp_2002/Toder_etal_ModelingIncome.pdf %4 Earnings and Benefits File/Disability/Disability/Pensions/Wealth %$ 14212