This brief presents information on RETAIN state programs’ approaches to recruiting potential enrollees and implications for the pace of enrollment during the first 11 months of the demonstration.
Lack of quality data has limited research into employment outcomes for young adults on the autism spectrum. To help researchers assess data on the topic, the REYAAS project catalogued 11 datasets containing employment-related information on this population.
This paper examined how an eligibility rule change in VA Disability Compensation (DC) affected participation in DC, SSDI, and SSI to understand whether veterans with disabilities increase or reduce their take-up of SSA disability benefits when access to DC increases.
Descriptive analysis of secondary data to understand how nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers varied across states, industries and occupations, and other worker characteristics.
A quasi-experimental study to understand how changing labor market conditions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic affected opioid use.
The Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) demonstration aims to help workers with recently acquired injuries and illnesses remain in the labor force. The evaluation will document implementation and estimate the impacts on employment and use of disability programs.
The authors use data from the 2012-2015 TRICARE Standard Survey to examine factors that affect civilian health care providers’ acceptance of patients covered by the U.S. Department of Defense’s TRICARE insurance program and Medicare.
Intermediary organizations that provide nonattorney representation services to people applying for Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefits are a prominent but understudied part of the disability landscape.
This article uses administrative data from the Social Security Administration to explore the employment patterns and characteristics of individuals awarded Supplemental Security Income benefits between 2001 and 2009 who later qualified for Social Security Disability Insurance.
This book chapter examines the lessons from state temporary disability insurance (TDI) programs in helping workers return to work following an injury or illness.
This environmental scan identifies existing policies, strategies, and practices for opioid prescription management and evidence on their effectiveness. It covers approaches implemented in workers’ compensation and other health care settings, such as health insurance programs and health care systems.
This brief presents findings on state- and county- level SSA administrative data with two goals in mind: (1) to introduce the RETAIN demonstration and its objectives to a broad audience and (2) to support RETAIN states in their planning for Phase 2 of the demonstration.
This article summarizes selected findings from work conducted under the Social Security Administration’s Disability Research Consortium by researchers at the Mathematica Center for Studying Disability Policy (CSDP).
We use state variation in the experience of the Great Recession and subsequent recovery to explain the deviation of Social Security Disability Insurance awards from historical trends in the period from 2008 through 2014.
TRICARE provides health benefits to more than nine million beneficiaries (active duty and retired military members and their families).
Awards of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits to disabled workers increased rapidly and then declined in the decade after the Great Recession began.
We provide the first publicly available statistics on the extent to which recent successive birth cohorts enter Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and on cross-cohort trends in the average number of years of SSDI benefit receipt among all individuals of a given birth cohort.
This brief describes a phased approach to implementing an Employment/Eligibility Service system that would serve as a new gateway to Social Security Disability Insurance and return-to-work supports for workers that have a medical condition that threatens their ability to stay in the workforce.
This brief summarizes findings from recent Disability Research Consortium (DRC) studies that examine the characteristics of DI applicants and assess potential approaches for targeting early interventions, and discusses the policy implications of these findings.
The articles in this special section examine opportunities for early intervention that is intended to retain the jobs of workers who have medical conditions that could put them at risk of prolonged work disability.
his qualitative study examines factors that influence employers’ efforts to provide accommodations to, and ultimately retain, workers with newly acquired disabilities.
We examine the potential for using information in short-term disability claims to identify workers at high risk of leaving the workforce and entering Social Security Disability Insurance.
We use administrative data to examine the various milestones achieved and pathways followed by new Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) awardees.
Early interventions can help short-term disability insurance (STDI) claimants return to work following onset of an off-the-job medical condition.
Every year, millions of U.S. workers lose their jobs or leave the workforce because of a medical condition. The authors examine a growing body of research that indicates many could stay in the labor force and retain their livelihoods if their needs for prompt and practical extra support are met.
We use a large database of short-term disability insurance claims to estimate models that predict who will exhaust short-term disability insurance and transfer to long-term disability insurance.
This issue brief is the fourth in Advancing Policy to Support Workers with Disabilities, a Roosevelt House series edited by Professor Purvi Sevak that aims to objectively synthesize research that can inform policymakers and other stakeholders of the potential impacts of a range of policy changes on employment...
In this article, we use data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) Veterans Supplement to estimate the impacts of the change in the VA PTSD rule on DC benefit receipt and self-reported cognitive disability.
In this brief, we explore the possible reasons for the growth in the number of SSDI claimants with MSK conditions, present a range of evidence-based interventions that might help workers stay in the labor force after experiencing the onset of such conditions, and discuss the importance of examining whether...
Key insights for federal and state policymakers interested in piloting stay-at-work/return-to-work interventions.
We looked at California’s State Disability Insurance (SDI) and Workers’ Compensation (WC) claims to examine whether it is possible identify the bulk of a state’s likely Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) entrants based on disability claims they file before they apply for SSDI.
Older veterans are facing increasing challenges in the labor market, and further research is needed to determine whether these challenges are primarily related to health, a growing skills gap, or poorly-aligned incentives.
Millions of hard-working Americans leave the labor force every year, at least temporarily, because of injury or illness.
The predictive performance of the regression-based models is better than that of the individual claims-based indicators.
There has been a long-standing interest by policymakers in ways to reverse the declining rates of employment and high poverty rates of people with disabilities.
We followed a sample of working-age Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program beneficiaries for 5 years after their first benefit award to learn how certain factors are associated with achievement of four return-to-work milestones: enrollment for employment services provided by a state vocational...
The authors propose to modernize the gateway to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program in a manner that addresses two systemic problems with the economic security system for workers who experience threats to work because of medical conditions.
Using Social Security administrative data, we compare the cross-cohort characteristics and 5-year employment outcomes of young adults (aged 18–39) who were first awarded Social Security disability benefits from 1996 through 2007.
Each year, millions of workers in the United States develop a chronic illness, disability, or other serious medical problem. Many are at risk of exiting the labor force, especially if they do not receive timely and effective return-to-work (RTW) supports.
Each year, millions of workers in the United States develop a chronic illness, disability, or other serious medical problem that puts them at risk of exiting the labor force.
Mathematica analyzed existing research and interviewed subject matter experts, including physicians, to learn about the RTW-related practices of physicians and associated challenges and barriers.
This article presents long-term cumulative statistics on the extent to which individuals who began receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability payments from 1996 through 2006 found work and used SSI work incentives.
This report contains national and state-level statistics on the number of participants in federal disability programs, drawn and produced from administrative data, relative to the estimated size of the working-age population with any self-reported disability based on the American Community Survey (ACS)....
This paper provides new descriptive information on trends in the composition and outcomes of young (under age 40) Social Security Disability (SSD) beneficiaries first awarded benefits between 1996 and 2007, particularly differences between disabled workers and disabled adult children (DAC), and between...
This paper assesses the effectiveness of means-tested and social insurance programs in the United States. The U.S. benefit system has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percentage of the poor in 2004 from 29 to 13.5 percent.
This report reviews sociodemographic and dietary characteristics of individuals in each group and describes their distinct dietary patterns, as identified through a cluster analysis of dietary intake.