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CBO Releases Report on Policy Options for the Social Security Disability Insurance Programblog post
The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program has expanded rapidly during the past few decades, and CBO projects that, under current law, future spending for the program will significantly exceed the revenues dedicated to it.      The Social Security Disability Insurance Program - Infographicimage
The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program provided $119 billion in benefits to 8.3 million disabled workers in fiscal year 2011, accounting for nearly 18 percent of total Social Security spending. In addition, 2.0 million dependents of those workers received benefits in 2011. CBO projects that in 2022, the DI program will provide benefits totaling $204 billion to over 12.3 million disabled workers and their dependents. Policy Options for the Social Security Disability Insurance Programreport
The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program pays cash benefits to nonelderly adults (those younger than age 66) who are judged to be unable to perform “substantial” work because of a disability but who have worked in the past; the program also pays benefits to some of those adults’ dependents. S. 3193, Barona Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer Clarification Act of 2012cost estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on June 28, 2012 |
