How to Reduce Disability: Lessons from Chile


 

Publication Date: August 2010

Publisher: National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)

Author(s): Estelle James

Research Area: Government

Keywords: disability; chile; reduce disability

Type: Report

Coverage: United States Chile

Abstract:

Disability costs are rising in many countries, including the United States. Disability is the fastest-rising component of U.S. Social Security, growing at nearly twice the rate of retirement benefit spending. Chile, however, reversed this trend when it implemented a new retirement and disability benefits system in 1981.