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Kimberly Blanton
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Writer and Editor, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
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By Kimberly Blanton| crr.bc.edu@ The cost to employers of providing their workers with health insurance has remained fairly stable for years. At first blush, this seems like good news for workers. When benefit costs rise, employers tend to take it out of their employees’ wages. But as costs stabilized, health insurance no longer exerted the downward pressure on paychecks that it did back in the 1990s. This had the added advantage of halting the erosion of wages on which Social Security levies its payroll tax.
By Kimberly Blanton| crr.bc.edu@ The families of more than 1 million children and teenagers with serious physical and intellectual disabilities are receiving Supplemental Security Income, or SSI. But a 1996 reform made it harder to keep those benefits when the child turns 18. The 18-year-olds who don’t meet the tougher requirement for eligibility lose not only SSI’s monthly cash payments but potentially the Medicaid health insurance that usually goes with it.
By Kimberly Blanton| crr.bc.edu@ The cost to employers of providing their workers with health insurance has remained fairly stable for years. At first blush, this seems like good news for workers. When benefit costs rise, employers tend to take it out of their employees’ wages. But as costs stabilized, health insurance no longer exerted the downward pressure on paychecks that it did back in the 1990s. This had the added advantage of halting the erosion of wages on which Social Security levies its payroll tax.
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