A Roadmap to a 21st-Century Disability Policy

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Article Publication Date: 
1/1/2012
Summary: 
Despite decades of increases in program participation and spending, the disability support infrastructure in the United States and the economic independence of people with disabilities have eroded. Rather than tighten eligibility or reduce program benefits, this issue brief proposes gradual programmatic reforms and evidence-based structural changes to improve the economic status of Americans with disabilities.
Article Author: 
Mann, David; Stapleton, David
Topics: 
Quality
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financial reform; Social Security Disability Income (SSDI); Supplemental Security Income (SSI); structural issues; Medicare; dependence; Disability Support Administrators (DSAs); policy transition; Retirees with impairments; low work capacity;

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