Tag: Social Security Disability

Woman with injury filing insurance documents

Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) provides workers with income while they recover from a serious medical condition.  Some argue that these benefits allow workers to adjust to health shocks and return to the workforce, reducing reliance on Social Security Disability Insurance (DI).  Yet, TDI could also encourage workers to apply for DI benefits by providing…

asian senior grandfather sitting in living with granddaughter

This paper examines family representative payeeship provided to adults with mental illness. In-depth interviews were conducted with five beneficiaries with mental illness who have a family representative payee and seven family representative payees for this population. The qualitative descriptive method and thematic analysis were employed to examine satisfaction with, and conflict experienced in, family representativ…