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Social Security: Americans Agree VIDEO
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Social Security: Just the Facts Video
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COVERED: a week-by-week look at the political and legislative developments that led to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago. Bob Rosenblatt, Academy senior fellow and former Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent will report on the people and the maneuvers that led to this major expansion of social insurance.
Fact Sheet: Sorting Out Social Security Disability Programs: Information From A Nonpartisan Source
As Social Security disability programs draw attention from policy makers, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) offers objective information that can help to sort through the complexity of these programs and the issues that surround them. The Academy is a nonprofit research and education organization made of up of the nation's leading experts on Social Security, Medicare and other social insurance programs. It completed a comprehensive review of the disability programs by its independent Disability Policy Panel in 1996 and since then has conducted numerous seminars, workshops and conference that build on and disseminate the work of that panel. The Academy does not lobby or take positions on policy issues.
What is the Social Security disability insurance (DI) program?
What is the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability program? How many working-aged Americans have disabilities?-
See Disability Questions and Answers
See Dispelling the Myths About Work Disability, by Marjorie Baldwin and William Johnson (paper presented at Academy conference, December 15, 2000)
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See Disability Questions and Answers
See 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds
See 2000 Annual Report of the Supplemental Security Income Program
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See Stories from People Receiving Disability Benefits [panel report excerpt]
[excerpts from Panel's report]
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How Does Disability Income Policy Fit Into the Broader Disability Policy Picture?
Does the Social Security Definition of Work Disability Fit the Program's Purpose?
How are Disability Claims Decided?
Why do the Rolls Grow and Shrink?
Are DI benefits a Deterrent to Work?
Does the Social Security Administration Have Adequate Funding to Administer the Program with Fairness and Integrity?
What is the Academy's Disability Policy Panel?
