Disability Insurance

Naturally, lawmakers are diverting their attention to resolving sequestration, the debt ceiling, and the expiring continuing resolution, but another...

Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...

With all of the new developments in tax reform it may be easy to forget about entitlements. But Michael Boskin, former chairman of the Council of...

Yesterday, the CATO Institute hosted a panel discussion featuring CATO Senior Fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale, MIT economics professor David Autor...

Bipartisanship will be a crucial element when it comes to reforming Social Security and achieving other budget related reforms in the near future. In...

The recent NPR segment from Chana Joffe-Walt on the disability insurance program has certainly started a conversation. The Washington Post 's Wonkblog...

In a recent story called “Unfit for Work: The Startling Rise of Disability in America,” Chana Joffe-Walt of NPR's Planet Money takes an in-depth look...

We have been working our way through the “15 Ways to Rethink the Budget” report from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project. Previously, we...

Seventy seven years ago today, the Social Security Act was signed into law. Over the life of the program, it has provided generations of Americans...

We have said before that the Disability Insurance (DI) portion of Social Security is too often overlooked, even though it has a more immediate funding...

Brian Faler of Bloomberg has an article about the unwillingness of lawmakers to address Social Security's Disability Insurance program. Although the...

CRFB's Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein has a message to policymakers in an op-ed in The Hill: don't overlook the disability insurance (DI)...