The Medicaid Buy-In program, a state Medicaid option since the late 1990s, is designed to encourage adults with disabilities to work by allowing them to buy into Medicaid when their earnings exceed standard Medicaid eligibility limits. This article describes enrollment, expenditures, and...

This report describes opportunities to rigorously test the effectiveness of employment initiatives for this population. The report addresses two key questions: (1) Which strategies would be most interesting to test and how could programs be designed to support rigorous evaluations of them? (2)...

This book chapter examines how firms behaved with respect to employment-based health insurance before Affordable Care Act deliberations and uses that behavior to predict the changes that might occur when the legislative requirements become fully implemented.

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...

Working-age people with disabilities are often overlooked in discussions of the latest statistics on employment, income, poverty, and other measures. This book reviews what current data on this population can and cannot tell us, as well as how data quality can be improved to better inform...

This study tested a new conceptual model for the relationship between race, personal history characteristics, and quality of employment outcomes for white, black, and Hispanic participants to examine an old question: Are there still racial disparities in vocational rehabilitation employment...

The Medicaid Buy-In program is a key component of the federal effort to help people with disabilities work without fear of losing health coverage. The program enables participants to "buy into" Medicaid even if their income is too high for other Medicaid eligibility categories. A new brief, the...

For many TANF recipients living with disabilities, the path to self-sufficiency is encumbered by personal and family challenges that interfere with steady employment. Recognizing that these TANF recipients may require more intensive support than is available through traditional employment...