Predictors of financial self-sufficiency among Social Security beneficiaries with psychiatric disabilities

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zlatka Russinova ◽  
E. Sally Rogers ◽  
Marsha Langer Ellison ◽  
Philippe Bloch ◽  
Asya Lyass ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Psychiatric Disabilities ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Social Security Beneficiaries

The Ticket to Work Program: Employment Networks’ Views on Serving Beneficiaries who are Blind or Visually Impaired

2005 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 336-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele E. Capella-McDonnall
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Social Security Beneficiaries

This article reports on a survey of the opinions of employment networks (ENs) about serving social security beneficiaries who are blind or visually impaired under the Ticket to Work program. Although most of the 267 ENs who participated in the survey expressed concerns about working with those who are blind or visually impaired, they did not seem to be biased against working with this population based solely on their disability type.

scholarly journals DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM: THE NEED FOR MORE APPROPRIATE APPROACHES

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MAT Nyenti
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
South African ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
The Right ◽  
Resolution Processes ◽  
Social Security Beneficiaries

The right to social security in South Africa is adjudicated and enforced mainly by means of litigation. This article examines litigation as a mechanism for the resolution of social security disputes in South Africa and its impact on both the right to have access to court and to social security. It argues that court-based adjudication may not be the most appropriate means of adjudicating social security claims. This is particularly as South Africa is a country where social security beneficiaries have limited knowledge of the laws and procedures, coupled with a lack of publicly-provided legal assistance/representation for social security cases. Dispute resolution mainly through the courts may contribute to the limitation of their right to seek redress and by implication, their right to have access to social security. Finally, the article proposes the investigation of more appropriate dispute-resolution processes. This is due to the failure of court-based adjudication to ensure access to justice (and to social security); constitutional requirements arising from the protection of the rights of access to justice and to social security; the Constitution’s focus on protecting persons who are particularly vulnerable and desperate; the availability of other (more appropriate) dispute-resolution mechanisms; and the relatively successful implementation of these mechanisms in the resolution of social security disputes in comparative jurisdictions. 

scholarly journals Minimum Wages and Retirement

ILR Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-177
Author(s):  
Mark Borgschulte ◽  
Heepyung Cho
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Wage Increases ◽  
Social Security Beneficiaries

The authors study the effect of the minimum wage on the employment outcomes and Social Security claiming of older US workers from 1983 to 2016. The probability of work at or near the minimum wage increases substantially near retirement, and previous researchers and policies suggest that older workers may be particularly vulnerable to any disemployment effects of the minimum wage. Results show no evidence that the minimum wage causes earlier retirements. Instead, estimates suggest that higher minimum wages increase earnings and may have small positive effects on the labor supply of workers in the key ages of 62 to 70. Consistent with increased earnings and delayed retirement, higher minimum wages decrease the number of Social Security beneficiaries and amount of benefits disbursed. The minimum wage appears to increase financial resources for workers near retirement.

Securing Social Security Solvency

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-167
Author(s):  
William P. Brandon ◽  
Zachary Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Consumer Price Index ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Determinant ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Payroll Taxes ◽  
Unearned Income ◽  
Social Security Beneficiaries ◽  
Social Determinant Of Health

AbstractAdequate income is a social determinant of health. In the United States, only Social Security beneficiaries receive inflation-protected guaranteed income. Social Security needs another 1983 compromise in which stakeholders accepted “shared pain” to avoid insolvency. We propose indexing the benefit using the chained consumer price index (CPI) for all urban consumers and providing a one-time bonus of 8% to 10% for beneficiaries in their mid-80s, when needs become greater. The chained CPI has little impact when beneficiaries start receiving benefits, but older beneficiaries need protection. The estimated 75-year savings from this restructured benefit amount to 14.2% to 18% of Social Security deficits. Modest increases in payroll taxes and maximum earnings taxed should make up most of the shortfall. Including unearned income with wages and salaries subject to the 6.2% individual tax would produce much more revenue. The discussion explores the proposal’s political feasibility, grounding in current policy and political science literature, and the role of income as a social determinant of health.

scholarly journals New Policy of Welfare States: Preparing Background for Analysis of Social Situation of People with Disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Elena Kulagina
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Disadvantaged Population ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Social Unity ◽  
Working Age

The article examines the implementation of new social security and employment policy in welfare states (social-democratic, conservative corporate and neoliberal regimes) in order to take a new look at the disability policy in Russia. Basing on the analysis of international research and OECD statistic data of 30 years the article explores the shifting trends in social policy, the new rights / responsibilities rule approaches and the reasons for restricting the state interference. The author investigates into the approaches in social security which define the conditions of receiving social assistance (controlling the ‚passive‘ measures, assigning responsibility for self-sufficiency and switching to ‚active‘ measures for the working age population) and describes the shifts in redistribution of wealth and social relations. The author analyzes the measures aiming at increasing opportunities and subduing the dependency culture in employment as well as demonstrates how these measures influence labour relations, salary and social security of employees. The reasons for growing poverty, inequality in income, wage and social security of the disadvantaged population groups are unveiled. The factors promoting redistribution and reinforcement of social unity and common wealth, as well as anti-crisis regulation are determined.

scholarly journals Formation of the System of Local Bodies of Social Security in the Ukrainian SSR (First Half of the 1920s)

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Victor Sharpatyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The purpose of the article based on the analysis of archival sources and official documents, highlights the process of formation of local social security bodies in the Ukrainian SSR during the formation of the totalitarian regime. Find out the features of the social policy of the Soviet state and its political and ideological priorities in the social sphere. Determine the objective and subjective reasons for the failure of local social security bodies to provide full assistance to those in need. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of scientific character, objectivity, historicism. Methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special-historical (problem-chronological, structural-synthetic, comparative). To identify the size of the social contingent of persons under guardianship, the author used elements of the statistical method. Scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the history of the formation of the Soviet social security system in provinces, cities and districts actually became the subject of this study for the first time. The author analyzed the structural and functional changes in the work of local social security bodies, which led to the centralization of the administrative apparatus and the decentralization of functions and the mechanism of servicing those in need. Conclusions. The formation of the local social security system went through two periods: the first lasted from February 1919 to June 1920, during which an independent three-stage social security system was formed in the Ukrainian SSR. The second falls on 1921-1925, during which there were significant functional changes in social security due to the transition to NEP. The first period was characterized by a philanthropic orientation of the social security organs, coverage of all categories of the population, and during the NEP there was a strict policy of “denationalization” of social security. The state has shifted many responsibilities of social self-sufficiency to the cooperation of disabled people, social insurance agencies and various committees of mutual assistance. The middle link has lost the coordination functions of assigning pensions and other benefits, turning into an organizational, inspection and instructor unit.

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