Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications
Published 1 September 1998Open access
David C. Stapleton
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This collection of original papers reveals why caseloads of the nation's two largest income entitlement programs for disability - Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - have soared.
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