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Disability Policy Research Forum Archives: 2011
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Related issue briefs:
"The Youth Transition Demonstration: Interim Findings and Lessons for Program Implementation" (October 2011)
"Phone or Face-to-Face? Comparing Data from Surveys of People with Disabilities" (May 2010)
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Julita Milliner-Waddell, Senior Survey Researcher, Mathematica
Karen CyBulski, Senior Survey Researcher, Mathematica
Debra Wright, Associate Director, Survey Research, Mathematica
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Jamie Kendall, Deputy Commissioner, Administration on Developmental Disabilities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families |
| Overview: “Nothing about us without us” has become a mantra of the disability community. Although researchers have encountered barriers to including people with disabilities in survey research, involvement in the research process is vital. This forum presented an overview of the issues and challenges researchers face in surveying individuals with disabilities. The forum focused on successful methods to interview and include them in survey research, as well as implications for future research and program participation, by highlighting two recent examples—the Youth Transition Demonstration and the National Beneficiary Survey—both funded by the Social Security Administration. |
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For a copy of Gina Livermore's presentation, please contact csdp@mathematica-mpr.com.
Issue Brief
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Gina Livermore, Senior Researcher, Mathematica
Andrew Houtenville, Research Director, The Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire
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David Stapleton, Senior Fellow, Mathematica
Andrew Imparato, Senior Counsel and Disability Policy Director,
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions |
| Overview: As the country struggles to reduce the federal deficit, a closer look at federal disability spending raises provocative questions. How will disability programs fare as demand increases and budgets shrink? In this forum, speakers will discuss new findings on working-age people with disabilities, the federal and federal-state programs that support them, and the growth in support for those who leave the workforce because of a disability. Gina Livermore presented new statistics on federal and state program expenditures for working-age people with disabilities. Andrew Houtenville described recent findings on the individuals who benefit from these programs. David Stapleton discussed the rising number of workers who receive benefits from Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare. He also explained how this growth affects the federal deficit and the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Andrew Imparato presented implications of the new findings for federal disability policy as Congress and the White House consider ways to downsize the deficit. |
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David Wittenburg, Senior Researcher, Mathematica
Charles Michalopoulos, Senior Fellow, MDRC
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Robert Weathers, Deputy Associate Commissioner, Office of Program Development and Research,
Social Security Administration |
| Overview: Access to health insurance is an important concern for new Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries who must wait up to 24 months to become eligible for Medicare. Without medical care, a beneficiary’s health may deteriorate, making him or her more reliant on public cash and other supports. In 2006, the SSA launched the Accelerated Benefits (AB) Demonstration to test whether earlier access to health care and related services would lead to improved health, increased employment, and reduced reliance on benefits among new SSDI beneficiaries who lack health insurance. In this research forum, presenters described the findings from the first year of the AB Demonstration. |
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Thomas Fraker, Senior Fellow, Mathematica
Taylor Runner, Program Manager, Human Resources Development Foundation
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Arif Mamun, Senior Economist, Mathematica
Kelli Crane, Senior Research Associate, TransCen, Inc. |
| Overview: Since 2005, Mathematica Policy Research and its partners MDRC and TransCen, Inc., have been conducting a random assignment evaluation of six Social Security Administration (SSA)-funded youth transition demonstration (YTD) projects designed to improve employment and other outcomes for teenagers and young adults with severe disabilities. The speakers will describe how the projects are organized and staffed, contrast the types and intensity of services received by treatment group members with those received by youth in the control group, and explain how the provision of programmatic technical assistance to the projects has evolved over time. |
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