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Browsing K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability Collection by Subject "FICA"
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A Comparison of the Economic Status of Working-Age Persons with Visual Impairments and Those of Other Groups
(2003-03-01)This article compares the economic status of working-age individuals with visual impairments with those with nonvisual impairments. It shows that the employment rates and mean household incomes were lower and the receipt ... -
A Difficult Cycle: The effect of labor market changes on the employment and program participation of people with disabilities
(2005-10-01)This paper examines the dynamics behind the employment and program participation trends of workers with disabilities. We find strong evidence that labor market declines induce male workers with disabilities to exit employment ... -
Administrative Wage Garnishment: A new tool in SSA’s debt collection toolbox
(2004-07-01)This Just the Facts Series details Administrative Wage Garnishment (AWG). SSA, subject to certain exceptions can use AWG to collect any overpayment that is “past due”. SSA can use AWG while it is also taking other action ... -
Characteristics or Incentives: Why Do Employment Outcomes for the SSA Beneficiary Clients of VR Agencies Differ, on Average, from Those of Other Clients?
(2004-10-01)This report uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Programs to compare employment outcomes of state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency clients who receive Social Security Disability ... -
Contrasting the Employment of Single Mothers and People with Disabilities
(2003-01-01)The transition of single women with children off the welfare rolls and into employment (see Figures 1 and 2) in the 1990s has been described as “stunning” by leading policy researchers (see, for instance, Blank 2002). The ... -
Dealing with Post-Entitlement Issues; A Practical Guide for Advocates
(2006-04-20)This brief details sources of possible overpayments under the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance Program. Reviewed is the process for beneficiary notification of overpayment along with ... -
Developing Strategic Marketing Plan
(2001-12-07)This publication is first in a series targeted for Coordinators and Managers within Benefits Planning, Assistance and Outreach Programs concerned with developing continuous quality improvement approaches. This early ... -
Disability and Retirement: Basic Information for BPA&O and PABSS
(2004-07-01)This Just the Facts Series details the transition process from Disability to Retirement Benefits. -
Dynamic Modeling of the SSDI Application Timing Decision: The Importance of Policy Variables
(2003-01-01)This paper analyzes the importance of policy variables in the context of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing decision. Previously, we explicitly modeled the optimal timing of SSDI application ... -
Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing
(2004-01-01)This paper develops a dynamic programming model of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins ... -
Earned Income Tax Credit: How to Use the Tax Credit to Build Assets
(2009-01-01)The purpose of this guide is to educate New Yorkers with disabilities about the Earned Income Tax Credit. -
Employing those not expected to work: The stunning changes in the employment of single mothers and people with disabilities in the United States in the 1990s
(2004-01-01)This report compares the dramatic changes in the level of government benefits provided to single mothers and people with disabilities, especially in the 1990s. While welfare reforms and economic growth during the 1990s led ... -
Employment and Economic Consequences of Visual Impairment
(2002-01-01)Working-age people with disabilities work less and have less household income than working-age people without disabilities. There are also dramatic differences in the kinds and levels of disabilities within the working-age ... -
Federal program expenditures for working-age people with disabilities: Research Report
(2005-01-01)Public assistance programs are important sources of support for working-age people with disabilities in the United States. Using a variety of information sources, the authors estimate that the federal government spent $226 ... -
How policy variables influence the timing of applications for Social Security Disability Insurance
(1999-01-01)This article analyzes the impact of policy variables - employer accommodations, state Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) allowance rates, and DI benefits - on the timing of an application for DI benefits by workers ... -
How Policy Variables Influence the Timing of Social Security Disability Insurance Applications - Policy Brief
(2001-01-01)While the onset of a health based work limitation will affect a worker’s ability to remain on the job, it does not necessarily result in a swift and certain job exit and transition onto the disability rolls. The decision ... -
How Postsecondary Education Improves Adult Outcomes for Supplemental Security Income Children with Severe Hearing Impairments
(2006-08-22)This is a case study of SSI children who apply for postsecondary education at the National Technical Institute of the Deaf (NTID) within the Rochester Institute of Technology. We estimate the likelihood that an SSI child ... -
Impacts of Expanding Health Care Coverage on the Employment and Earnings of Participants in the SSI Work Incentive Program - Policy Brief
(2000-05-01)While people with disabilities often say that a loss of public health insurance is a deterrent to work, it is rare to find situations in which they might actually exhibit such a behavioral response to a change in access. ... -
Implications of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program for Young Adults
(2002-05-01)On December 17, 1999, President Clinton signed the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (P.L. 106-170) into law establishing in section 101(a) the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program (Ticket to Work ... -
Material Hardship, Poverty, and Disability among Working-Age Adults
(2006-04-01)We use longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) spanning the 1996 to 1999 period to estimate the prevalence of several types of material hardships among working-age people with and without ...
