Workplace injuries and the take-up of Social Security disability benefits

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• Personal Author:
  Boden LI ; O'Leary P ; Ozonoff A ; Scherer E ; Seabury, Seth A.
• Description:
  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 benefits for those injuries and illnesses. Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) is the largest disability insurance program in the United States, with annual cash payments to disabled workers of $95 billion in 2008. Because injured workers may also receive DI benefits, it is important to understand how those two systems interact to provide benefits. This article uses matched state workers' compensation and Social Security data to study the relationship between workplace injuries and illnesses and DI benefit receipt. We find that having a lost-time injury substantially increases the probability of DI receipt, and, for people who become DI beneficiaries, those with injuries receive DI benefits at younger ages. This relationship remains robust even after we account for important personal and work characteristics. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Men Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Disabled-workers Humans Injuries Work-areas Work-environment Workers
• ISSN:
  0037-7910
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Massachusetts ; New Mexico ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 6 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-17
• Volume:
  72
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041748
• Citation:
  Soc Secur Bull 2012 Aug; 72(3):1-17
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  Boston University Medical Campus
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Social Security Bulletin
• End Date:
  20110831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3053105937ac14770133b5c90996b1302ce88868df9ba85e33c7aa6e6ed73e4dbebaca40fb4c963ca0e7a37c2e1463571b37a078a0998f7b6eb95ca7d0a212ba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194226/cdc_194226_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 158.19 KB ]