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Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

Social Security Reform and Its Effects on Participation in the Supplemental Security Income Program  / Research Report
December 2004— How Supplemental Security Income, a program designed to reduce poverty among the aged, blind, and disabled, could be affected by five of the various Social Security solvency proposals is examined in this AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper by Melissa M. Favreault, Jillian A. Berk and Karen Smith of the Urban Institute. (53 pages) (Publication ID: 2004-18)

In-Brief: Social Security Reform and Its Effects on Participation in the SSI Program  / Research Report
December 2004— A short summary of the similarly titled AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper in which the impact that five of the various Social Security solvency proposals could have upon potential future recipients of Supplemental Security Income benefits is examined by Melissa M. Favreault, Jillian A. Berk and Karen Smith of the Urban Institute. (2 pages) (Publication ID: INB93)

The Effect of Social Security Reform Proposals on Social Security Disability Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, and Private Disability Insurance  / Research Report
July 2001— Some Social Security reform proposals would result in reduction of the program's disability insurance benefits. In this AARP Public Policy Institute Issue Paper, Selin Opcin and David Stapleton of The Lewin Group suggest that it is important for policy makers to address both disability and retirement reform simultaneously. (46 pages) (Publication ID: 2001-13)

Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow  / Research Report
February 2000— This AARP Public Policy Institute Data Digest by Laurel Beedon describes the SSI program from 1974 through 1999--its administration, its financing, its recipient population, benefit levels and distribution, and it includes a brief review of the Social Security Administration actuaries' long-term SSI projections. (4 pages) (Publication ID: DD43)