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Social Security distributes cash benefits to retired and disabled workers in accordance with past taxable earnings, and the book describes and evaluates the procedures for determining each worker's earnings-related benefit base. Primary worker payments are determined by applying a cohort-specific benefit formula to the benefit base of each worker.

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Such key considerations as the adequacy of protection, the financing problems, issues of fairness, the response to disability, and the health care needs of the elderly are particularly focused on--the authors' are sensitive to the social welfare nature of the programs.

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Offers recommendations for improving Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in socially responsible ways that serve to relieve some of the stress on the middle class and promote upward mobility. Synthesizing data and explaining economic concepts in layman's terms, the authors expose myths about how entitlement programs actually work.

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This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isnt covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.

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By providing a global perspective on social security, Dixon enables scholars, students, and social security administrators to place national and perhaps regional social security policy debates into their larger, regional and global settings.

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By providing a global perspective on social security, Dixon enables scholars, students, and social security administrators to place national and perhaps regional social security policy debates into their larger, regional and global settings.

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This volume examines current trends in social security programs around the world. The discussions highlight the need to evaluate the impact of social security programs on the general population, as well as on specific population groups.

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Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--around the year 2030, well within the retirement years of the baby boom generation.

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Within the last decade, social support has become an increasingly popular research topic among professionals in the social sciences. Many empirical studies on social support appeared initially, only to be followed by a spate of theoretical articles attempting to make sense of the growing research literature.

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Explains how the Americans With Disabilities Act affects social work practice.

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Explains how the Americans With Disabilities Act affects social work practice.

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Here, Dhooper reviews the contributions of the few social workers in this field and suggests ways of improving their work, consolidating their professional gains, and maximizing their impact. Recommended for social workers trained for practice in the 1990s and beyond, and particularly those specializing in health and mental health social work.

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This work is a critical analysis of the various aspects of social work education and practice. The incorporation of science and scientific approach into social work education and practice appears to be the key for the profession to continue to grow and gain its rightful place in the professional and academic communities.

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At a time of great economic and political change this book offers a timely evaluation of the social work profession in Ireland. It not only focuses on the major social changes that have taken place but also explores key areas of practice, including child welfare, domestic violence, mental health and working with minority ethnic groups.

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The fourth edition of this introductory text covering key areas of social work in Scotland. It explores the development of social work, the Scottish legal framework, family and welfare law, the elderly and chronically sick, compulsory measures of child care, mental health and criminal justice.

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This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions, whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved.

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Drawing on the empirical research and practical experiences, this book provides guidance on social work practice, research, community engagement, and education by offering a comprehensive understanding of culturally sensitive social work approaches for effectively engaging with Koreans in the United States.

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Pardeck demonstrates that the ecological approach to social work practice stresses effective intervention, and that effective intervention occurs through not only working with individuals, but also with the familial, social, and cultural factors that impact their social functioning.

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