Association between longest-held occupation and Social Security Disability Insurance benefits receipt.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The cost of the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program has increased over time though recent reports showed that disability incidence and prevalence rates have started declining. We explored whether occupation was one of the risk factors for the rising number of disabled workers who received DI benefits during 1992-2016.

Methods

We used a cohort of 16 196 Health and Retirement Survey respondents between the age of 51 and 64 years who were followed from their date of entry until they received DI benefits, died, reached full retirement age, or reached the end of the follow-up period (2016). We used the extended stratified Cox proportional hazard model. Because one-third of the respondents in our cohort did not report their longest-held occupation, we us

SUBMITTER: Asfaw A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8016398 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature