Allowance programs are a conceptually appealing way to help people with disabilities and their families pay for goods and services that such individuals often need. The programs provide recipients with financial resources that they can use in a flexible and efficient manner to improve their...

This paper examines employment-focused policies in the U.S. disability system and summarizes rigorous evaluations of return-to-work supports targeted to people with disabilities. Several empirically validated approaches to providing return-to-work services to people with disabilities in the...

The idea of people with disabilities working is becoming the expectation and goal of public policy in the U.S. as well as in many other countries. This research brief from Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy profiles the U.K.’s Pathways to Work program which offers employment...

Roughly 21 million women (15.6 percent of all women) in the U.S. have a disability. For women ages 21 to 64—the years during which people are most likely to be employed—about 13 percent, or 11 million, have a disability. This article describes some of the data available about women...

This brief explores the paths of people with disabilities who leave the Medicaid Buy-In program, finding that their earnings and employment rates decline after disenrollment. The program helps adults with disabilities work while still retaining Medicaid coverage. At the end of 2008, 37 states...

Examines early implementation issues and findings on enrollment and participation patterns in the Social Security Administration's Ticket to Work program, which attempts to increase access to, and the quality of, rehabilitation and employment services available to Social Security disability...

This study examined the characteristics and service use of Medicaid Buy-In participants with higher incomes (above 250 percent of the federal poverty line), relative to participants with lower incomes. The study found higher-income participants were less likely to enroll in Medicare and more...