Eligibility

• The Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI), if applicable, are required to have a Ph.D. or comparable professional certification in a relevant social science field.
• The PI and the Co-PI(s) must be junior or non-tenured scholar(s) who are within 1-7 years of completing their Ph.D. or comparable professional certification.
• The scholar(s) must be employed fulltime at an academic or research institution.

Funding Priorities

Grant proposals must focus on at least one of the following research areas:

• Trends in disability and survey issues;
• Informing long-term projections and models;
• State and local pensions for non-covered workers;
• Actuarial adjustment of benefits;
• Economic effects of totalization agreements;
• Measuring sources of income;
• Risks and resources in older age;
• Induced entry;
• Opioids; or
• Claimant representatives.

Additional Information

• Applications with senior or tenured co-authors may be disqualified.
• The program is funded by a grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) through the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC).
• Select grant winners may be required to present their results to the SSA or during the annual RDRC meeting in Washington, DC or Baltimore.