OBJECTIVE: Longitudinal prospective data from the multisite Epidemiologic Catchment Area
(ECA) survey were examined to determine relationships between mental disorders, alcohol …

The Social Security Disability benefit programs (SSDI and SSI) constitute an essential safety
net for individuals unable to work because of disability. Eligibility for SSDI is based on work …

Objective: To assess the effect of the Australian Disability Support Pension (DSP) on the
symptomology of depression and anxiety over and above the effects of reporting a disability …

Assumptions about the characteristics and motivations of individuals pursuing disability
status are well known. However, policy, programming and interventions need to be based …

Persons with psychiatric disorders comprise the largest diagnostic group of disabled
recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Income …

Objective A suspicion that disability payments may exacerbate substance use among
persons with chemical addictions recently led Congress to limit federal disability …

Objective: Mental illness is consistently underrecognized in general health care, which may
lead to underestimation of its effects on awards for social security payments. The authors …

Objectives: Although a 1996 federal law terminated Social Security disability benefits to
individuals disabled primarily by drug addiction and alcoholism, many were expected to …

Objectives. To determine whether receipt of social supplemental security income (SSI) or
Social Security disability income (SSDI) disability payments is associated with increased …

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between receiving disability payments
and changes in health status, community adjustment, and subjective quality of life …