Papers presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance, held in Washington, D.C., Jan. 25-26, 1996.

1. Introduction / Virginia P. Reno. 2. Disability Benefits Policy: Is There a Crisis? Findings of the Disability Policy Panel / Jerry L. Mashaw. U.S. Disability from a European Perspective / Philip R. de Jong. New Developments in Private Health and Disability Benefits / Dallas Salisbury. 3. Encouraging Work through Cash Benefits Policy: New Proposals. Linking Beneficiaries with Return-to-Work Services / Monroe Berkowitz. The Disabled Worker Tax Credit / Richard V. Burkhauser, Andrew J. Glenn and David C. Wittenburg, Comment / Michael J. Graetz. Comment / William G. Johnson. Comment / Tony Young. 4. Challenges in Medicare and Medicaid for Persons with Disabilities. Confronting the Ambivalence of Disability Policy: Has Push Come to Shove? / Bruce C. Vladeck, Ellen O'Brien and Thomas Hoyer [et al.]. Why Not the Best for the Chronically Ill? / Stanley B. Jones. Managing Care for Persons with Disabilities: The Conflicts between Medicare and Medicaid / Patricia Riley. Disability Policy in an Age of Reform / R. Alexander Vachon. 5. Workers' Compensation, Twenty-Four-Hour Coverage, and Managed Care / John F. Burton, Jr. 6. Alternatives to Income Support: Where Are the Jobs? How Will Labor Market Trends Affect People with Disabilities? / Alan B. Krueger. Inner-City Labor Markets: Where the Jobs Are Not / Katherine S. Newman. A View from Business / Van Doorn Ooms. The Clash between Advocacy and Implementation / Leslie J. Scallet. 7. Is Cash Benefit Policy in Conflict with the ADA? / Lex Frieden. 8. The Unfinished Business of Disability Policy / Jerry L. Mashaw.