Employment Experiences of Young Medicaid Buy-In Participants with Psychiatric Disabilities.

The Medicaid Buy-In program enables people with disabilities to buy into Medicaid when their earnings or assets would typically make them ineligible. Using buy-in employment data, this article assessed the differences in employment outcomes between young participants (ages 18 to 30) with psychiatric disabilities versus young participants with other disabilities and found the former achieve larger average increases in earnings around the time of enrollment in the program than those with other disabling conditions, though average earnings while employed are lower.