Temporary Disability Insurance Coordinated With State Unemployment Insurance Programs

*Commissioner for Social Security. Wage loss incurred by disability is one of the most serious threats to the economic security of American workers. The illogicality of paying benefits to an unemployed worker only so long as he remains able to work, and stopping those payments when he becomes ill, has been evident ever since unemployment benefits became payable, and States and their employment security agencies are manifesting a growing interest in temporary disability insurance. Coordination of temporary disability benefits with State unemployment insurance programs, the Social Security Administration believes, offers a feasible approach to this goal. But the value of such a program, to workers and employers within a State and to the State as a whole, will depend in large part on the soundness and effectiveness of the provisions actually incorporated in the State law.