This summary presents key findings from four studies conducted under the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program (TTW) evaluation through 2012. The studies focus on the employment efforts of working-age (age 18 to full retirement age) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Disability...

Using Social Security Administration data, this paper presents findings from a longitudinal analysis of the extent to which new Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability beneficiaries return to work and use SSI work incentives. Longitudinal statistics show that more than 8 percent of those...

This issue brief uses longitudinal data to follow a group of Social Security Insurance beneficiaries and examine their efforts to return to work. Compared with shorter-term cross-sectional data, the longitudinal statistics show higher levels of employment and suspensions of benefits due to work.

The Social Security Administration established the TTW program to put disability beneficiaries on the road to economic self-sufficiency by improving access to and quality of services that will help them work. This interim report looks at the program during its first two years of operation to...

This paper presents results from an impact analysis of the Ticket to Work program, as implemented by the Social Security Administration from 2002 through 2007. The analysis found substantial impacts on enrollment for employment services with qualified providers, but no consistent evidence of...

This report summarizes seven studies conducted for the final Ticket to Work (TTW) evaluation report that examine beneficiary work activity and effects of the original and revised TTW regulations, the experiences of providers under the revised regulations, and the employment outcomes of...

This report presents impact estimates for the original Ticket to Work program, prior to the 2008 regulatory changes. Although distribution of Tickets significantly increased service enrollment, there was little evidence of increased suspensions or terminations of benefits due to work.

This paper presents the findings from a longitudinal examination regarding the extent to which new Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries return to work and use disability insurance work incentives, based on Social Security Administration data.