Disability Benefit Growth and Disability Reform in the U.S.: Lessons from Other OECD Nations

Richard Burkhauser, Mary Daly, Duncan McVicar and Roger Wilkins ()

No 2013-40, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: Unsustainable growth in program costs and beneficiaries, together with a growing recognition that even people with severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable DI program growth in the U.S., show their similarity to the factors that led to unsustainable growth in these other four OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability program. Although each country took a unique path to making and implementing fundamental reforms, shared lessons emerge from their experiences.

JEL-codes: H53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 61 pages
Date: 2013-12-13
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DOI: 10.24148/wp2013-40

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