This study measured the prevalence and resource needs of children with special health care needs in the military health care system, finding that they compose 23 percent of the enrollees in the system who are younger than 18 years old. Most need prescription medications and medical, mental...

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...

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...

Promoting employment for people with disabilities is an important policy objective for the nation. The first brief in a new series on the Medicaid Buy-In program, which extends Medicaid coverage to people with disabilities who go to work so they do not lose health care, examines participant...

This report presents preliminary findings on the effect of service interventions that can be synthesized from the state projects’ evaluations, which are the first component of the national evaluation to be completed. The findings reflect the likely effects of the state projects based on...

This report provides statistics on employment and benefit outcomes for Ticket to Work (TTW) participants since program inception in 2002 and compares them to outcomes for other Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries.

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...