STAT June 6, 2024
The Covid pandemic has been called a “mass-disabling event” since early on — the kind of once-in-a-generation public health crisis that could shape millions of people’s lives forever. But while more people self-identified as disabled since the pandemic began, applications for disability benefits have stayed level, according to data from the Social Security Administration.
That could change as the burden of long Covid becomes clearer. A new report commissioned by the SSA in 2022 captures what we know so far about long Covid, and hints at how the nation’s disability benefits system might need to shift in the wake of the pandemic.
Over 15 million people in the United States received benefits as of December through Social Security...
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