%0 Journal Article %J Social Security Bulletin %D 2002 %T How Policy Variables Influence the Timing of Social Security Disability Insurance Applications %A R.V. Burkhauser %A Butler, J.S. %A Robert R. Weathers II %K Disabilities %K Social Security %X This article analyzes the impact of policy variables—employer accommodations, state Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) allowance rates, and DI benefits— on the timing of an application for DI benefits by workers with a work-limiting health condition starting when their health condition first begins to bother them. The analysis uses a rich mixture of personal and employer characteristics from the Health and Retirement Study linked to Social Security administrative records. %B Social Security Bulletin %I 64 %V 64 %P 52-83 %G eng %U https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v64n1/v64n1p52.pdf %N 1 %4 Social Security/Disability/Disability %$ 10232