Disability Insurance

The President's FY 2016 Budget last week proposed dealing with the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump of the exhaustion of the Social Security Disability...

In addition to updating budget projections, CBO's baseline also looks at the state of various government trust funds over the next ten years. Two of...

The recently adopted House rules for the 114th Congress are getting attention in the budget world mostly for their requirement that the Congressional...

This year was an eventful one for the federal budget. To explain the year's events, CRFB wrote 427 blogs, 17 papers, and created more than a hundred...

It is clear that Social Security faces financial challenges. This year, its own Trustees estimated the combined trust funds would run out of reserves...

In his final week on Capitol Hill, retiring Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced a bill with a wide-ranging set of measures to, in his words, protect...

The House passed the ABLE Act yesterday, a bill that helps those who have been disabled since youth accumulate savings. The bill, with an estimated...

Henry Aaron – Chair of the Social Security Advisory Board and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution – recently weighed in on the Social...

Although the Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Patent Office are infamous among federal agencies for the long wait times and lines, their backlogs pale in...

With the Disability Insurance trust fund running out of money in two years, time is running out to discuss a smart solution to the program's imbalance...

As we have been reporting, many reforms to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program could improve its effectiveness, fairness, and...