Summary

Many youth with disabilities depend on Supplemental Safety Earnings (SSI) as an vital supply of earnings for his or her households, however they have to undergo a redetermination course of at age 18 if they’re to proceed receiving these advantages into maturity.  Our challenge makes use of information from the Nationwide Longitudinal Examine of Adolescent to Grownup Well being (Add Well being) to look at the long-term influence of shedding youngster SSI upon turning 18, because of the 1996 welfare reform, on schooling and well being outcomes.  We examine the long-term outcomes of those that turned 18 simply after August 1996 with those that turned 18 simply earlier than, on condition that the reform elevated the strictness of medical evaluations for 18-year-old beneficiaries.  As a result of the respondents are of their 30s and 40s within the later waves of the survey, we additionally study the well being outcomes of their kids.

The paper discovered that:

• Those that had been prone to lose SSI at age 18 have fewer years of schooling and are much less prone to attend school than those that had been much less prone to lose their advantages.
• There’s suggestive proof of worse well being outcomes for the youngsters of those that had been prone to lose their SSI advantages at age 18.

The coverage implications of the findings are:

• Discontinuing advantages at age 18 has a detrimental influence on the human capital attainment of kid SSI beneficiaries, which can clarify their decrease long-term earnings relative to different deprived populations.
• The detrimental impacts of discontinuing youngster SSI advantages could proceed into the following era.
• Reasonable quantities of money transfers to kids of susceptible households could result in lasting optimistic impacts.