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Back to Work: Recent SSA Employment Demonstrations for People with Disabilities
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Back to Work: Recent SSA Employment Demonstrations for People with Disabilities

Issue Brief, 12-05
Published: Jun 30, 2012
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research
Human Services Disability Economic Well Being and Income Support

Authors

David R. Mann

David Wittenburg

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 these rigorous assessments include modest improvements in employment.

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