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来源类型 | Publication |
来源ID | DRC Working Paper Number 2016-01 |
The Effect of a 1999 Rule Change on Obesity as a Factor in Social Security Disability Determinations | |
Anne Stahl; Jody Schimmel Hyde; and Harnam Singh | |
发表日期 | 2016-02-10 |
出版者 | Washington, DC: Center for Studying Disability Policy, Mathematica Policy Research |
出版年 | 2016 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | In this article, we document the effects of a 1999 policy change that altered how obesity was to be considered in the disability review process. Tracing changes in obesity recorded as an impairment by Social Security Administration (SSA) adjudicators and the body system of record among applications with recorded obesity during this period, we find that the number of applications with obesity recorded as a primary impairment fell, and the number with obesity as a secondary impairment rose. We also find that initial allowances rates among applications with recorded obesity impairments were lower after the policy change and, when they did occur, allowances were much more likely to be made for medical-vocational reasons than before the policy change.", |
摘要 | Key Findings:
Obesity prevalence in the United States has risen at a rapid rate in recent decades, a time during which applications to federal disability programs have also increased substantially. SSA removed obesity as a discrete listing in the Listing of Impairments in 1999 in an attempt to more closely align allowances made for obesity with applicants’ ability to engage in substantial gainful activity. This paper uses SSA Disability Determination (831) data to identify trends in recorded impairments of obesity among working-age applicants with initial determinations from 1990 through 2012. We find that the 1999 policy change shifted the recording of obesity from predominantly in the primary impairment field to the secondary impairment field, shifted the body system category of applicants with obesity recorded as an impairment, decreased the share of applications with recorded obesity impairments receiving an initial allowance, and increased the use of vocational factors in allowances made to applicants with obesity impairments. |
URL | https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/the-effect-of-a-1999-rule-change-on-obesity-as-a-factor-in-social-security-disability-determinations |
来源智库 | Mathematica Policy Research (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/488419 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anne Stahl,Jody Schimmel Hyde,and Harnam Singh. The Effect of a 1999 Rule Change on Obesity as a Factor in Social Security Disability Determinations. 2016. |
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