Trends Over Time and Jurisdiction Variability in Supplemental Security Income and State Supplementary Payment Programs for Children With Disabilities
| Autor: | Kim Kotzky, Jennifer W Kaminski, Maya Hazarika Watts, Caroline M. Barry, Jessica Amoroso, Kelly J. Kelleher, Rebecca F. Johnson, Lara R. Robinson, Lindsay K Cloud, Russell F. McCord, Amy Cook |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Public health law
media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Article Social Security Statute 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Diabetes Mellitus Humans Child poverty 030212 general & internal medicine Child Economic stability media_common 030505 public health Actuarial science Jurisdiction Poverty Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Payment Disabled Children United States Child Preschool Business 0305 other medical science State Government |
| Zdroj: | J Public Health Manag Pract |
| ISSN: | 1078-4659 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/phh.0000000000001122 |
| Popis: | Context Nearly 1.2 million children with disabilities received federally administered Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments in 2017. Based on a robust review of research and evaluation evidence and microsimulations, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee identified modifications to SSI (ie, increasing the federal SSI benefit maximum by one-third or two-thirds) as 1 of 10 strategies that could reduce the US child poverty rate, improving child health and well-being on a population level. Objective Describing the availability and amount of SSI and State Supplementary Payment (SSP) program benefits to support families of children with disabilities may be a first step toward evaluating The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine-proposed modification to SSI as a potential poverty alleviation and health improvement tool for children with disabilities and their families. Design We used public health law research methods to characterize the laws (statutes and state agency regulations) governing the federal SSI program and SSP programs in the 50 states and District of Columbia from January 1, 1996, through November 1, 2018. Results The number of jurisdictions offering supplementary payments (SSP) was relatively stable between 1996 and 2018. In 2018, 23 US jurisdictions legally mandated that SSP programs were available for children. Among the states with SSP payment amounts in their codified laws, SSP monthly benefit amounts ranged from $8 to $64.35 in 1996 and $3.13 to $60.43 in 2018. Conclusion Our initial exploration of SSI-related policies as a tool for improving the economic stability of children with disabilities and their families suggests that current SSPs, in combination with SSI, would not rise to the level of SSI increases proposed by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Understanding more about how SSI and SSP reach children and work in combination with other federal and state income security programs may help identify policies and strategies that better support children with disabilities in low-income households. |
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