This paper explores the role how schools affect children’s applications to Supplemental Security Income by using variation in school virtual or in-person learning options during the 2020-21 school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This paper explores factors correlated with the drop in child applications and awards for Supplemental Security Income at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the substantial variation across local areas.
This paper used Social Security Administration program data from 2005 to 2019 to examine national- and state-level changes in the number of new adult supplemental security income (SSI) awardees on the autism spectrum relative to awardees with intellectual disability and other mental health disorders....
This article examines the extent to which socioeconomic deprivation explains geographic variations in SSI participation among children.
This brief summarizes the experiences of treatment group members in reporting earnings and using the POD benefit offset. POD is a randomized controlled trial that tests two versions of new SSDI work rules with a control group that is subject to current law rules.
This brief examines how Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (POD) treatment and control group members experienced overpayments. POD is a randomized controlled trial that tests two versions of new SSDI work rules with a control group that is subject to current law rules.
This brief summarizes evaluation findings at the end of the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (POD)’s two-year implementation period. POD is a randomized controlled trial that tests two versions of new SSDI work rules with a control group that is subject to current law rules.
This report presents process, participation, and impact findings for the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (POD) from 2018 through 2020. POD is a randomized controlled trial that tests two versions of new SSDI work rules with a control group that is subject to current law rules.
Youth Transition is a book chapter that reviews the findings from Social Security Administration demonstrations and other related initiatives to inform options for improving the transition and adult outcomes of youth receiving Supplemental Security Income.
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.
This brief provides insights into using web surveys for a large sample to inform other data collection efforts involving disability beneficiaries.
This brief summarizes interim findings for the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (POD) through 2019—the first year after enrollment was completed. POD is a randomized controlled trial that tests two versions of new SSDI work rules with a control group that is subject to current law rules.
This article provides new evidence of the changing role of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for low-income children since 1997.
This study presents evidence on using outreach motivated by behavioral research to encourage enrollment in a pilot initiative with the Social Security Administration that simplified Social Security Disability Insurance payment rules.
This report presents interim process, participation, and impact findings for POD through 2019—the first year after enrollment activities were completed. We organized the analyses around five research questions.
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the recruitment effort to identify, solicit, and enroll volunteers for POD.
This brief contains a detailed comparison of POD and BOND that explains the benefit offset rules and recruitment processes, summarizes characteristics of beneficiaries who enrolled in the demonstrations, and analyzes early use of the benefit offset.
This brief summarizes findings from an experiment to assess messaging strategies for final reminder postcards sent to 146,548 beneficiaries.
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 brief summarizes findings from a rapid-cycle experiment conducted during the recruitment pilot, which included mailings to 31,296 beneficiaries.
This article examines differences between survey- and administrative data–based estimates of employment and earnings for a sample of Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries.
This issue brief highlights three groups of potential target population for transition interventions for youth with disabilities.
This report identifies promising interventions that could assist youth with disabilities.
This brief highlights two transition frameworks designed to guide the development and assessment of interventions for youth with disabilities.
This report identifies potential target populations for interventions and the characteristics of youth Supplement Security Income recipients who are most likely to benefit from these strategies.
This article examines Youth Works implementation and outcomes to provide a potential case study for other states interested in expanding services to youths with disabilities.
This report describes the evaluation design of POD, a randomized controlled trial that tests two versions of new SSDI work rules with a control group that is subject to current law rules.
This report documents promising strategies to promote sustained, gainful employment for youth SSI recipients. The report is from the SSI Youth Recipient and Employment Transition Formative Research project with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Disability Employment Policy.
As part of the Ticket to Work (TTW) and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, Congress directed the Social Security Administration (SSA) to test alternative Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) work rules designed to increase the incentive for SSDI beneficiaries to work and reduce their reliance...
The authors use data from the National Compensation Survey to examine private long-term disability insurance access, cost, and trends over time.
The Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) tests variants of Social Security Disability Insurance program rules governing work and other supports. The BOND project includes two stages.
We use Social Security administrative data to track state-level benefit receipt and employment outcomes of former child SSI recipients who received an age-18 redetermination.
Recent federal policy changes require vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to increase the share of spending they allocate to services for specific types of transition-age youth, though limited information exists about the outcomes for these different types.
Policymakers are increasingly interested in expanding private long-term disability insurance (LTDI) options to increase access to work and income supports and reduce dependency on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
The findings point to the challenges that youth with disabilities face after they leave high school and enter a fragmented service environment.
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 estimate the wage offers and employment of young adults with and without disabilities using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data.
This report documents impacts on earnings and benefit outcomes during the third calendar year of implementation of the Social Security Administration's Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND).
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, a federal income support program administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA), which includes children under age 18 with disabilities in low-income households, has grown in recent years.
This introduction offers a context for the articles in this thematic series by providing an overview of the programs that provide cash and in-kind supports to people with disabilities in the United States, summarizes the increasing reliance on these programs, and describes the challenges associated with...
This report, the second in a series of Snapshot Reports, documents Stage 1 impacts on earnings and benefit outcomes during the second calendar year of implementation (2012).
This paper provides a framework to categorize disability definitions for the purpose of interpreting disability prevalence estimates of transition-age youth (ages 16 to 24) with disabilities.
The services and supports available to youth with disabilities change substantially as these youth move out of high school, and often youth must navigate a fragmented system of supports.
As part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, Congress asked the Social Security Administration to conduct the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND).
Uses linked administrative data from program and earnings records to summarize 2007 employment rates at the national and state levels.