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Saving Social Security Disability Insurance: Designing and Testing Reforms through Demonstration Projects

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  • Fichtner, Jason
  • Seligman, Jason

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This study will apply lessons from the program design literature and complex project archetypes to the objective of reforming Social Security Disability Insurance in the next several years –the window of time currently granted by the 2015 Bipartisan Budge

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  • Fichtner, Jason & Seligman, Jason, 2018. "Saving Social Security Disability Insurance: Designing and Testing Reforms through Demonstration Projects," Working Papers 07625, George Mason University, Mercatus Center.
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