State vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies play a significant role in supporting the employment goals of people with disabilities, but delays in the receipt of vocational services could adversely affect employment outcomes of applicants for services. This study explores the effect of waiting...

The authors examine the participation of SSA disability beneficiaries in the TTW program through December 2004. On an absolute scale, participation is very low, and perhaps much lower than many had hoped. Participation is not low relative to the historical rate for program exits due to work,...

State vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies play a significant role in supporting the employment goals of people with disabilities, but delays in the receipt of vocational services could adversely affect employment outcomes of applicants for services. This study explores the effect of waiting...

This report documents impacts on earnings and benefit outcomes during the third calendar year of implementation of the Social Security Administration's Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND). The report focuses on Stage 1, which is designed to examine how a national benefit offset would...

We use a dynamic modeling strategy to evaluate two potential avenues through which health differences generate a wage gap: (1) directly, through reductions in health capital, and (2) indirectly, through employment transitions that reduce human capital (specifically, occupation and employer...

The Great Recession (December 2007 to June 2009) had far-reaching impacts on the U.S. economy, but it likely had a different effect on beneficiaries of the Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs than on other working-age individuals. This data brief describes the experiences of...

This study explores the types of services, supports, and accommodations workers with disabilities use on and off the job and the strategies workers use to obtain the supports they need to find and maintain their employment. It also examines the extent to which employment supports and services...

This report, prepared for CMS, is the last in a series of annual reports on participation in the Medicaid Buy-In program. It provides updates on both national- and state-level trends in enrollment, employment, and earnings among the 35 reporting Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) states with a...

This paper describes the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) as a data source for migration studies. SIPP provides information on income, employment outcomes, and participation in government programs. The paper illustrates differences in the propensity for interstate migration...

In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA) to improve the labor market opportunities of people with disabilities. Immediately following the enactment of the ADA, the employment rate of people with disabilities declined. However, the long-term employment consequences of the...