Background: Disability insurance protects workers from total loss of income in case of a
disabling injury or illness by providing wage-replacement benefits. To better inform early …

Objectives A significant number of disability claims remain active for substantial timeframes
and account for a disproportionally large amount of financial resources. We conducted a …

Introduction The cost of the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program has increased
over time though recent reports showed that disability incidence and prevalence rates have …

Abstract Purpose The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act strengthens the vocational
rehabilitation program's focus on providing early intervention services to keep workers with …

Purpose Examine the potential for using information in short-term disability claims to identify
workers at high risk of leaving the workforce and entering Social Security Disability …

Workplace injuries and illnesses are an important cause of disability. State workers'
compensation programs provide almost $60 billion per year in cash and medical-care …

Disability insurance (DI) is a public expenditure (or social insurance) program designed to
provide income to individuals who become incapable of working due to health conditions …

Objective: To describe characteristics of claimants reporting an occupational injury
associated with disability benefits for income independently granted by the municipality the …

Objective In most industrialized countries, disability benefit rates have increased
substantially in the past decade. Few beneficiaries return into employment once disability …

Background Today, work disability is one of the greatest social and labour market
challenges for policy makers in most OECD countries, where on average, about 6% of the …