This report, prepared for CMS, is the last in a series of annual reports on participation in the Medicaid Buy-In program. It provides updates on both national- and state-level trends in enrollment, employment, and earnings among the 35 reporting Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) states with a...

This study explores the types of services, supports, and accommodations workers with disabilities use on and off the job and the strategies workers use to obtain the supports they need to find and maintain their employment. It also examines the extent to which employment supports and services...

This study used data from Connecticut to assess whether benefits counseling (BC), vocational rehabilitation (VR), or a combination had the most positive effect on employment. Using linked state data including unemployment insurance wage records, employment and earnings outcomes after receipt of...

Individuals with potentially disabling conditions have distinct health care needs, which if left unmet, can lead to the onset of a disability and enrollment in a federal disability benefit program. The Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE), administered by the Centers for...

In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA) to improve the labor market opportunities of people with disabilities. Immediately following the enactment of the ADA, the employment rate of people with disabilities declined. However, the long-term employment consequences of the...

People with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the poorest of the poor in developing countries. An increasingly common method of combating poverty in developing countries, microlending, has been largely unavailable to those with disabilities. This paper reports on one of the...

State vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies play a significant role in supporting the employment goals of people with disabilities, but delays in the receipt of vocational services could adversely affect employment outcomes of applicants for services. This study explores the effect of waiting...

We use a dynamic modeling strategy to evaluate two potential avenues through which health differences generate a wage gap: (1) directly, through reductions in health capital, and (2) indirectly, through employment transitions that reduce human capital (specifically, occupation and employer...

The Great Recession (December 2007 to June 2009) had far-reaching impacts on the U.S. economy, but it likely had a different effect on beneficiaries of the Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs than on other working-age individuals. This data brief describes the experiences of...

This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine how employment and degree completion outcomes for young adults vary by the timing of disability onset during childhood and adolescence. The authors find people with disabilities whose conditions persist into adulthood...