Security Matters

Quarterly Security Matters publications provide topical summaries of research findings and their applicability in practitioner and service-delivery settings. The Security Matters are organized by theme although many overlap into multiple categories.

Aging

• Security Matters: WI19-02 | Occupation and Work at Older Ages: Varied Responses to Policy
• Security Matters: WI19-06 | Debt Stress and Mortgage Borrowing in Old Age
• Security Matters: WI20-09 | The Demographics behind Aging in Place: Implications for Supplemental Security Income Eligibility and Receipt
• Security Matters: WI20-01 | Nursing Home Use Expectations & Wealth Accumulation Among the Elderly

Disability

• Security Matters: WI19-03 | Child Care for Families Raising Children with Disabilities: The Role of Federal Policy in Equitable Access
• Security Matters: WI20-06 | Trends in DI Conversations on Online Forums
• Security Matters: WI21-03 | Social Security Disability Insurance and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Housing

• Security Matters: WI19-07 | Housing Assistance Preferences for People with Disabilities and SSI Participation
• Security Matters: WI20-10 | Home Ownership and Housing Debt in Retirement
• Security Matters: WI20-07 | Housing Assistance as a Benefit for the Disabled and SSI Takeup
• Security Matters: WI20-11 | Housing Wealth and Economic Security in Retirement

Health

• Security Matters: WI19-08 | Incentives for Home and Community Based Care Under the Affordable Care Act
• Security Matters: WI20-Q1 | Determinants of the Use of Supplemental Security Income Eligibility by American Indian and Alaska Natives

Retirement

• Security Matters: WI19-10 | Household Debt & Financial Well-Being in Retirement
• Security Matters: WI19-04 | Unclaimed Retirement Accounts
• Security Matters: WI20-04 | Lost and Found: Claiming Behavior in Abandoned Retirement Accounts

Financial Wellbeing & Economic Opportunity

• Security Matters: WI19-09 | The Impacts of Payday Loan use on the Financial Wellbeing of the OASDI and SSI
• Security Matters: WI20-08 | Declining Economic Opportunity, Rising Overdose Rates, & DI Receipt
• Security Matters: WI19-02 | Economic Opportunity and Spatial Variation in Labor Force Participation, Self-Reported Disability, and Receipt of SSI/SSDI