This issue brief summarizes short-term impacts from four large scale- demonstration projects by the Social Security Administration designed to increase the economic self-sufficiency of Supplemental Security Income recipients and Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries. Results from...

The Charitable Choice provisions of federal welfare reform law encourage states to involve community and faith-based organizations in providing welfare services to the needy. This study examined how state and local officials understand and apply these provisions. The authors note that the level...

This report examined the feasibility of creating a Medicaid sample based on annual MAX files—a “Mini-MAXâ€â€”to make it easier for users to design and conduct MAX studies and make MAX data accessible to a broader community of Medicaid researchers, policymakers, program...

Retention is key in achieving SCHIP’s mission to reduce the number of uninsured children. This paper synthesizes the available evidence on disenrollment rates and reasons for disenrollment to produce estimates of SCHIP retention rates. The paper also summarizes the evidence on state SCHIP...

Provides a national profile of the growing role of Medicaid-dominated plans in the changing Medicaid managed care marketplace. To date, basic information on these plans has been lacking, partly because many are not licensed as HMOs by states. Call the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation at (800)...