This brief summarizes the findings from two studies that examine programs and policies in 10 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries that could address barriers U.S. youth with disabilities face in the transition to adulthood.

This report, focusing on employment and earnings, describes how nonexperimental comparison groups were selected for each of the 11 state projects that targeted adult beneficiaries, the validity of the comparison groups, and short-term project effects on employment and earnings in 3 state...

Information about institutional and noninstitutional residents of group quarters, particularly those with disabilities, is limited. This article uses the 2006 and 2007 American Community Surveys to produce descriptive statistics on the working-age population with and without disabilities by...

Leading health care financing reforms might mitigate, or even eliminate, challenges that the current system creates for people with disabilities who work, or want to work, but there is no guarantee. This brief summarizes the challenges posed by the current system and considers how features of...

Medicaid Buy-In participants who receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits may not be taking full advantage of the available work incentive programs that can improve their prospects of finding employment and attaining economic self-sufficiency. This policy brief, the seventh...

This brief details factors that help states and communities successfully implement the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) initiative, a program to improve access to disability benefits for people who are homeless.

This introduction presents early findings from the evaluation of the Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE), which used random assignment to test whether a program of enhanced health and employment supports for working adults with potentially disabling conditions can reduce...

This new report from Mathematica’s Ticket to Work program evaluation looks at the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) program, a grant initiative established by the Social Security Administration (SSA) in 2006. WIPA provides SSA beneficiaries with disabilities information and...