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Demonstration •Cash and Counseling •Children with Special Health Care Needs •Community Partnerships for Older Adults •Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE) •Helping TANF Recipients with Disabilities Find and Keep Jobs •Home- and Community- Based Medicaid Waiver Program •Medicaid Buy-In Program •Mental Health Parity: California •Mental Health Parity: Vermont •Money Follows the Person •Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) •Social HMOs •State Partnership Initiative on Employment •Ticket to Work •Youth Transition Demonstration
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What Is the Center for Studying Disability Policy?
The Center for Studying Disability Policy was established in 2007 by Mathematica to inform disability policy formation with rigorous, objective research and data collected from the people disability policy aims to serve, supplies the nation's policymakers with the information they need to navigate the transition to 21st-century disability policy. For over two decades, Mathematica has conducted many significant disability studies, including some of the first rigorous evaluations of employment supports for people with severe disabilities and the largest surveys of people with disabilities. More than 30 staff continues this pioneering work today through a wide range of innovative disability research and data collection. Read more.
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Disabled Americans' Long Wait for Health Coverage
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Policy Forums Shed Light on Disability Research Findings
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This newly updated guide provides an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with surveying persons with disabilities. Mathematica prepared the first version of the guide in 2006. This updated version has 75 new abstracts and reference citations—more than half dating from 2004 or later. All references—dating from 1974 to 2007—are from multiple and diverse sources, including online journal articles and social science resources; conference presentations, papers, and summaries; citations from articles and books; federal websites; internet search engines; and working papers and dissertations.
Report
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. This report focuses on post-rollout implementation and early impacts.
Executive Summary
This report summarizes findings from a five-year study of the Cash and Counseling program in three states. Medicaid enrollees who were frail or had disabilities received a monthly cash allowance to purchase personal assistance services and related goods and also received counseling to help plan their purchases. The report highlights program effects on participants and their paid and unpaid caregivers, and examines Medicaid costs.
Executive Summary
A new brief profiles the U.K.’s Pathways to Work program, which offers employment support and services to applicants for Incapacity Benefits (IB), the country’s largest disability program. Its key elements are a series of compulsory work-focused interviews, as well as a range of optional services and financial supports known as the Choices Package.
Issue Brief
The inaugural brief in a new series from the Center for Studying Disability Policy highlights the extent to which SSI and SSDI beneficiaries are working or trying to return to work. It also examines their interest in increasing their earnings and self-sufficiency, as well as the challenges they face.
Issue Brief
The sixth policy brief in a Mathematica series on working with disability looks at the Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment, which allows states to provide Medicaid-equivalent or "wrap-around" coverage to supplement existing health insurance for workers with potentially disabling conditions.
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This brief, the sixth in a series on critical issues involved in caring for children with special health care needs, notes that 40 percent of children with special health care needs enrolled in commercial health insurance plans have an emotional or behavioral disorder.
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The brief notes that nearly 40 percent of participants increase their earnings after enrolling, with substantial differences in rate of earnings growth based on participant characteristics and across states.
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Mathematica, with support from the Commonwealth Fund, is analyzing gaps in health coverage for the recently disabled. The study is looking at the impact of Medicare's waiting period on people with disabilities, and the struggles they encounter as they navigate the maze of SSDI and Medicare. An 
A bimonthly lunchtime seminar series provides decision makers and others with an opportunity to hear about the latest disability policy research findings and discuss implications for policy.