Who Are the Top Earners in the Medicaid Buy-In Program

Promoting employment for people with disabilities is an important policy objective for the nation. This third brief in a series on the Medicaid Buy-In program, a key component of the federal effort to help people with disabilities return to work without losing health insurance coverage, examines the top earners in the program. The brief notes that the top 10 percent earn $25,000 on average and they are more likely to be young and nonwhite than participants overall. In addition, top earners were less likely to have received payments from the Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Insurance programs in the year before enrolling in the Buy-In program.