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...

Using linked Social Security (SS) administrative data, we analyzed SS Disability Insurance (DI) program reform proposals that would hold firms partially responsible for a portion of the DI benefits paid to their recent employees. Our analysis creates baseline firm-level benefit liability...

This paper examines employment-focused interventions in the U.S. disability system. The review illustrates the challenges of developing and implementing these types of initiatives, despite substantial policy interest. Findings indicate that none of the demonstrations has the potential to lead to...

By linking administrative data from two sources—the Disability Analysis File and Master Earnings File—this report creates detailed primary impairment status measures and examines the employment and earnings distribution of recent Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries...

Despite decades of growth in federal disability expenditures, the economic status of people with disabilities has eroded relative to the status of those without disabilities. Rather than tighten eligibility or reduce program benefits to slow expenditure growth, this article outlines an...

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 study reviews prior pilot projects and demonstrations for dual eligibles—those receiving both Medicare and Medicaid benefits—and finds support for modest Medicare savings through well-targeted interventions. The study cites a small number of fully integrated, capitated managed...

Still in its early design stages, the Work Incentive Simplification Pilot is a Social Security Administration demonstration to test major simplifications to the Social Security Disability Insurance work incentives. This report presents recommendations from a technical advisory panel, convened by...

This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how employment and degree completion outcomes for young adults vary by the timing of disability onset during childhood and adolescence. The authors find people with disabilities whose conditions persist into adulthood...