Social insurance programs provide benefits to individuals who have paid into the program, or whose employers have paid into the program on their behalf, often in the form of payroll taxes. The major U.S. social insurance programs are Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Workers’ Compensation, and Disability Insurance.
Noncustodial Parents’ Child Support and Custodial Parents’ Income Packages: Comparing the Great Recession and COVID-19 Recession Eras
- Marci Ybarra, Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Laura Cuesta, and Anna Walther
- Report
- October 2024
Approaches to Reducing Administrative Burdens in Accessing and Maintaining Services from Government Agencies and Public Programs
- Carolyn Barnes, Elizabeth Bell, Meredith Dost, and Donald Moynihan
- Webinar
- September 25 2024
IRP Book Talk: A Conversation With Jessica Calarco, Author Of Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net
- Jessica Calarco and Alia Wong
- Webinar
- July 18 2024
IRP Book Talk: Zach Parolin on Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19
- Zach Parolin
- Podcasts
- September 11 2023
Children Living in Grandparent-Led and Multigenerational Families: Implications for Policy and Practice
- Natasha Pilkauskas, J. Michael Collins, and LaShawnDa Pittman
- Webinar
- September 06 2023
Improving How Poverty Is Measured: A Recommendation To Better Reflect Households’ Basic Needs
- James Ziliak, Barbara Wolfe, Jane Waldfogel, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Indivar Dutta-Gupta
- Webinar
- July 26 2023
Thirty Years of the FMLA: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Recommendations for More Equitable Policies
- Marci Ybarra, Shetal Vohra-Gupta, and Maya Rossin-Slater
- Webinar
- June 28 2023
COVID-19, Child Support, and the Income Packages of Custodial Parents
- Alejandra Ros Pilarz and Laura Cuesta
- Report
- October 2022
Joseph Mullins on Valuing Parental Time and Children’s Development in the Design of Cash Transfer Programs
- Joseph Mullins
- Podcasts
- September 15 2022
Kathryn Edin on the 25th Anniversary of Making Ends Meet
- Kathryn Edin
- Podcasts
- June 15 2022