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AAP Report: Many children with mental health disorders not receiving federal benefits
http://aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/09/09/aapnews.20150909-1
Report: Many children with mental health disorders not receiving federal benefits
Melissa Jenco, News Content Editor
Published online September 9, 2015
Many low-income children with mental disorders are not receiving federal benefits despite likely being eligible, according to a new report.
Still, the number of these children who are receiving funds is growing and doing so at a pace consistent with the mental health trends in the general population, the report said.
The findings appear in the report, Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children (bit.ly/1EOEaY9), released Wednesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The group looked specifically at the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides benefits to low-income people with disabilities. In 2012, SSI payments to children were about $9.9 billion, which is about 20% of the program’s total payments.
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MORE: http://iom.nationalacademies.org/reports/2015/mental-disorders-and-disabilities-among-low-income-children
Report: Many children with mental health disorders not receiving federal benefits
Melissa Jenco, News Content Editor
Published online September 9, 2015
Many low-income children with mental disorders are not receiving federal benefits despite likely being eligible, according to a new report.
Still, the number of these children who are receiving funds is growing and doing so at a pace consistent with the mental health trends in the general population, the report said.
The findings appear in the report, Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children (bit.ly/1EOEaY9), released Wednesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
“We hope this will lay to rest the questions about whether too many kids are getting benefits for mental health conditions,” said James M. Perrin, M.D., FAAP, AAP immediate past president and a member of the committee that authored the report. “Secondly, we hope it will help alert all of our communities, not just the pediatric community but also the mental health community … about the availability and value of these benefits for children and families.”
The group looked specifically at the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which provides benefits to low-income people with disabilities. In 2012, SSI payments to children were about $9.9 billion, which is about 20% of the program’s total payments.
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MORE: http://iom.nationalacademies.org/reports/2015/mental-disorders-and-disabilities-among-low-income-children
Link via Anne Dachel.