Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2019 The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of Swedish social workers’ experience of disabled children’s participation, to discover in what ways their knowledge about impairment and disability, combined with legal literacy and local context ...
Lill Hultman +4 more
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Who Would Pay More if the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap Were Raised or Scrapped? [PDF]
, 2015 On January 1, 2015, the maximum amount of annual earnings subject to the Social Security tax -- a.k.a. the payroll tax cap -- increased to $118,500. Every year, this cap is adjusted to keep up with inflation.
Cherrie Bucknor +2 more
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The Social Security Retirement Age: In Brief [PDF]
, 2015 [Excerpt] Two important ages may affect a worker’s decision of when to claim Social Security retired-worker benefits. Workers may claim full Social Security benefits at the full retirement age (FRA), which is currently 66 and is rising gradually to the ...
Sidor, Gary
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"Workhood"-A Useful Concept for the Analysis of Health Workers' Resources? An Evaluation from Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 International debates on improving health system performance and quality of care are strongly coined by systems thinking. There is a surprising lack of attention to the human (worker) elements.
Gross, Karin +2 more
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Railroad Retirement Board: Retirement, Survivor, Disability, Unemployment, and Sickness Benefits [PDF]
, 2019 [Excerpt] The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB), an independent federal agency, administers retirement, survivor, disability, unemployment, and sickness insurance for railroad workers and their families under the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) and Railroad ...
Li, Zhe
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Street-Level Workers’ Discretion in the Changing Welfare
Cambio, 2019 A crisis and deep re-organisation of European welfare systems started in the 1970s. Both the demand for and supply of welfare intervention are involved in relevant transformations, and the street-level workers are placed right at the crucial point where ...
Tatiana Saruis
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The Role of Information for Retirement Behavior: Evidence based on the Stepwise Introduction of the Social Security Statement [PDF]
In 1995, the Social Security Administration started sending out the annual Social Security Statement. It contains information about the worker's estimated benefits at the ages 62, 65, and 70. I use this unique natural experiment to analyze the retirement
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
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¿Quo Vadis? Reclutamiento y Contratacion de Trabajadores Migrantes y su Acceso a la Seguridad Social: dinamicas de los sistemas de trabajo temporal migratorio en Norte y Centroamerica [PDF]
, 2013 Different regions and countries of the world face a serious need to design and make use of necessary policies and resources to better manage worker migration, thus ensuring the welfare and human rights of these people who, in the end, are of benefit to ...
Alejandra Costanza, Gisele Lisa Bonnici
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Astra Salvensis, 2019 Currently in the Russian Federation more than thirty million people use various services of state social organizations. The main categories of recipients of social services are persons with disabilities, elderly citizens, orphans and children left ...
Oksana Viktorovna NIKONOVA
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16PF Personality Profiles for Social Workers: Form A/Form S Comparisons [PDF]
, 1992 The goal of this report was to identify the distinguishing features of 16PF personality profiles for social workers that have been collected with Experimental Form S (prototype of Fifth Edition 16PF Questionnaire).
Guastello, Stephen J.
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