Bending the employment, income, and cost curves for people with disabilities

Bending the employment, income, and cost curves for people with disabilities

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Issue brief (Center for Studying Disability Policy)
Author(s):
Stapleton, David C., author
Contributor(s):
Center for Studying Disability Policy, issuing body.
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Center for Studying Disability Policy, April 2011
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Cost Savings -- trends
Persons with Disabilities
Employment -- trends
Health Care Costs -- trends
Income
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Curbing the growth of the federal deficit is a major priority for policymakers. One factor contributing to this growth is the shrinking pool of working-age people with disabilities who have jobs and pay taxes on their earnings. A growing number of these individuals are leaving the workforce and obtaining Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits and Medicare, adding to the skyrocketing costs of these federal programs. Although the support provided by these programs helps ease the financial strain on workers with disabilities, statistics show that the household incomes of these workers are falling behind those of workers without disabilities. This brief lays out a two-pronged approach for bending these curves--increasing the employment rate for people with disabilities, reducing their reliance on federal support, and increasing their household incomes--while preserving benefits for those who are unable to work.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (3 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101563027 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101563027