Aspects of Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials

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19. Study of Beneficiaries Awarded DI Benefits in 1996 and Their Experience with Returning toWork and Leaving the Disability Rolls—(Mathematica Policy Research Study)SSDI Awards:591,493(100%)Employed:165,801(28.0%)Completedtrial workperiod: 60,761(10.3)Benefitssuspendedafter findingwork:38,546 (6.5%)Benefitsterminatedafter findingwork:21,829 (3.7%)Source: This chart is taken from the Disability Policy Research Brief, How Many SSDI Beneficiaries Leave the Rolls for Work?More Than You Might Think, by Su Liu and David Stapleton (2010a) for Mathematica Policy Research, and is based on SSAadministrative data.An April 2010 Disability Policy Research Brief by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., followed beneficiarieswho were first awarded DI benefits in 1996 through 2006. It found that:■■28 percent reported earnings of $1,000 or more to the Internal Revenue Service;■■ 10.3 percent completed the trial work period, in which they can work for nine months without loss ofbenefits;■■6.5 percent had their benefits suspended for working at the level of “substantial gainful activity” in thefirst 36 months after completing the trial work period. This 36 month period is known as the “extendedperiod of eligibility”; and■■3.7 percent had their benefits terminated because they engaged in substantial gainful activity after theextended period of eligibility.24 Aspects of Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials
E. Beneficiaries20. DI and SSI Beneficiaries—Calendar Years 1980-2035 (Projected)141210Millions86420198019851990199520002005201020152020202520302035DISSI 18 to 64SSI childrenThis chart shows actual data for 1980 through 2010, and projections for 2011 and later (based on the2011 Trustees Report and the 2011 Annual Report of the SSI Program). The number of DI beneficiaries morethan doubled between 1980 and 2010. In the same period, the number of SSI beneficiaries under age 18increased more than six-fold, and the number of SSI beneficiaries ages 18 to 64 nearly tripled.Currently, about 1.9 million disabled beneficiaries receive both Social Security and SSI benefits, knownas concurrent beneficiaries. Also, the DI figures on this page include dependents. As of December 2010,there were 8.2 million DI worker beneficiaries and 2 million spouses and children receiving benefits.Aspects of Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials 25
Page 7: IntroductionIn January 2001, the So
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Page 18 and 19: B. Allowances7. Combined DI and SSI
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Page 78 and 79: L. Data Sources and Notes1. Disabil
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15. Medical CDR Continuation Rates
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32. Average Age of Newly Awarded DI
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Part II. Aspects of Disability Deci
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A. How Disability Determinations Ar
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ments is equal in severity and dura
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B. Steps in the Social Security Dis
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C. Chronology of Significant Disabi
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1980 In response to rapid growth of
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Following years of litigation in se
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SSA began an ambitious project to d
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In early 1997, SSA announced that i
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2002 In Barnhart v. Walton, 535 U.S
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D. Important Recent Court Cases and
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■■Hickman (AR 00-02(7)) - Provi
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DISABILITY SERVICE IMPROVEMENT iii,
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Nearly every staff component of the
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■■developing and submitting bud
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Part IV. Bibliography of Materials
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Loprest, Pamela and David Wittenber
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Government Accountability Office (G
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Part V. Glossary
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DI: Disability Insurance under Titl
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in the labor market who provides im
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Marsha Rose Katz, Acting ChairMarsh
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Social Work from West Virginia Univ
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