PROMISE, a joint program of the Social Security Administration and several federal departments, aims to improve outcomes for children who receive Supplemental Security Income. This report summarizes the technical advisory panel's recommendations for incentive payments and evaluation design. It...

Although there is a large literature on the effects of U.S. transfer programs on labor supply, this is the first such study of the Food Stamp Program.

The Youth Transition Demonstration is developing and evaluating promising strategies to help youth with disabilities become as economically self-sufficient as possible as they transition from school to work. This report offers six implementation lessons to help policymakers and administrators...

The Ticket to Work (TTW) program was designed to promote employment by enhancing the market for services that help people receiving disability benefits become economically self-sufficient. To date, the Social Security Administration has successfully begun the market enhancement process by...

PROMISE—Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (SSI)—is designed to address many of the barriers to economic independence SSI youth and their families face and, ultimately, to promote positive changes in educational and employment outcomes and reduce reliance...

"The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Analysis Plan for Interim Reports." In partnership with the Social Security Administration, Mathematica is leading an evaluation of the Youth Transition Demonstration, an initiative to evaluate strategies to help...

This issue brief presents findings from a random assignment evaluation of the Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration, which is analyzing the implementation of six demonstration projects and their impacts on helping youth with disabilities find jobs and reduce their...

The evaluation team is tracking employment, earnings, and benefits, among other outcomes, to assess whether YTD helped youth find jobs and reduced their dependency on SSI and DI. The evaluation also includes a comprehensive study of the implementation of YTD.