AFDC, SSI, and Welfare Reform Aggressiveness: Caseload Reductions versus Caseload Shifting

Schmidt, Lucie; Sevak, Purvi

doi:10.2307/3558997

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“…Kubik (1999Kubik ( , 2003 and Garrett and Glied (2000) provide evidence that both individuals and states responded to these incentives and that substantial shifting occurred. Schmidt and Sevak (2004) provide evidence that female-headed households in states aggressively pursuing welfare reform in more recent years were more likely to have SSI income.…”

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The impact of child SSI enrollment on household outcomes

Duggan

Kearney

2007

J Policy Anal Manage

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We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate the impact that child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) enrollment has on household outcomes, including poverty, household earnings, and health insurance coverage. The longitudinal nature of the SIPP allows us to control for unobserved, time-invariant differences across households by measuring outcomes in the same household in the months leading up to and immediately following the first reporting of child SSI income. Our regression analyses demonstrate that for every $100 increase in household SSI income, total household income increases by roughly $72, reflecting some modest offset of other transfer income and conditional household earnings. Our analyses further demonstrate that child SSI enrollment is associated with a statistically significant and persistent reduction in the probability that a child lives in poverty of roughly 11 percentage points. Additional analyses suggest that program enrollment has virtually no impact on health insurance coverage because most new SSI recipients have health insurance from Medicaid or another source at the time of enrollment. Disciplines Health Economics | Insurance | Social Statistics ABSTRACTThe federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has become a primary source of cash assistance for low-income families with children in the United States, with 1.04 million children currently receiving SSI benefits and 6 percent of children in a household with some SSI income. In this paper we use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate the impact that child SSI enrollment has on household outcomes such as poverty, household earnings, and health insurance coverage. The longitudinal nature of the SIPP allows us to control for unobserved differences across households by measuring outcomes in the same household in the months leading up to and immediately following a child's first enrollment in SSI. Our regression analyses demonstrate that for every $100 increase in household SSI income, total household income increases by roughly $72, reflecting some modest offset of other transfer income and conditional household earnings. Our analyses further demonstrate that child SSI enrollment is associated with a statistically significant and persistent reduction in the probability that a child lives in poverty of roughly 11 percentage points. Additional analyses suggest that program enrollment has virtually no impact on health insurance coverage because most new SSI recipients have health insurance from Medicaid or another source at the time of enrollment.

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Section: A the Growth In Ssi Enrollment Among Childrenmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program to the SSI program during the 1990s (Kubik 1999(Kubik , 2003Garrett and Glied, 2000;Schmidt and Sevak, 2004). The only paper of which we are aware that investigates the relationship between child SSI participation and individual-level outcomes other than program participation is Kubik (1999).…”

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The impact of child SSI enrollment on household outcomes

Duggan

Kearney

2007

J Policy Anal Manage

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“…Schmidt and Sevak (2004), used a DID approach to examine the impact of welfare reform on the self-reported disability of single mothers (Schmidt and Sevak, 2004). The data source was the Current Population Survey (1987e1996), the treatment group was female heads of household and three different comparison groups were used: married mothers, single women without children and married men.…”

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The impact of welfare reform on the health insurance coverage, utilization and health of low education single mothers

Narain

Bitler

Ponce

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Social Science & Medicine

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“…This, on first glance, seems counterintuitive from the perspective of the EITC's expected effects. However, this period did see a large increase in SSI receipt (Duggan and Kearney 2007) and part of the growth of the SSI child caseload appears to be a response to other changes in the safety net, including welfare reform (Schmidt and Sevak 2004). Overall, the take-away from online Appendix Table 1 is that the EITC expansion led to substantial effects on after-tax income, with the largest changes coming from the increase in earnings, the increase in the EITC, and the reduction in AFDC/TANF.…”

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