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RWJF Grantees Help Shore Up Enrollment in the Health Care Marketplace (Research Brief)Jun 20, 2018
In fall 2017 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) invested over $3 million to shore up outreach and enrollment support. To better understand the effects of these investments, RWJF engaged Mathematica Policy Research to conduct a process assessment.
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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...
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