County-Level Drivers of Disability Benefit Claims in Times of COVID-19

R. Vincent Pohl and David R. Mann

Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College from Center for Retirement Research

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic likely affected applications and awards for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). This paper uses Social Security Administration (SSA) administrative data on applications and awards, combined with county-level data on COVID-19 severity, unemployment, and proximity to an SSA field office, to understand drivers of application and award rates. Specifically, it examines how changes from 2019 to 2020 in SSI and SSDI application and award rates were related to county-level factors affected by the pandemic.

Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2022-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://crr.bc.edu/working-papers/county-level-dri ... n-times-of-covid-19/ R

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:crr:crrwps:wp2022-19

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College from Center for Retirement Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Amy Grzybowski (amy.grzybowski@bc.edu) and Christopher F Baum (baum@bc.edu).