PROMISE, a joint program of the Social Security Administration and several federal departments, aims to improve outcomes for children who receive Supplemental Security Income. This report summarizes the technical advisory panel's recommendations for incentive payments and evaluation design. It...

Uses a new variable in the Ticket Research File to examine this issue.

Follows a cohort for several years to assess changes in service use, health status, employment, and income.

Evidence from the Social Security Administration's Transitional Employment Training Demonstration indicates that the overall performance of supported employment programs can be improved through program models that emphasize flexible and persistent services.

This summary presents the key findings from a collection of nine studies conducted in 2009–2010 that focused on the employment efforts of working-age Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries and the Social Security Administration work incentives...

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...

Confidentiality is a key element of mental health and substance abuse treatment. In the absence of assured confidentiality, many individuals with mental disorders or substance abuse problems may refuse or fail to seek treatment. As the payers of treatment, however, managed care organizations and...