Disability Insurance

The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program pays cash benefits to nonelderly adults who are judged to be unable to perform “substantial” work because of a disability but who have worked in the past; the program also pays benefits to some of those adults’ dependents. CBO produces projections of the DI program’s finances under current law and analyzes options for changing the program.

Interactive
How Changing Social Security Could Affect Beneficiaries and the System's Finances
April 24, 2019
This interactive tool lets the user explore seven policy options that could be used to improve the finances of the Social Security program and delay the exhaustion of its trust funds.
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The Social Security Disability Insurance Program - Infographic
July 16, 2012
CBO projects that in 2022, the Social Security Disability Insurance program will provide benefits totaling $204 billion to over 12.3 million disabled workers and their dependents.