Identifying Medicare Beneficiaries with Disabilities: Improving on Claims-Based Algorithms (Presentation)

The Relationship of Multiple Program Benefits and Employment to SSI/DI Enrollment and Reliance Among Working-Age Adults with Serious Mental Illness

The study provides information about how SSA’s programs for people with psychiatric disabilities intersect and interact with other federal, state and local programs that provide cash and other benefits to people with disabilities, and how enrollment in these programs is affected by changes in employment.

Trends in Disability and Program Participation Among U.S. Veterans

Older veterans are facing increasing challenges in the labor market, and further research is needed to determine whether these challenges are primarily related to health, a growing skills gap, or poorly-aligned incentives.

Young Adult SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries

About 9 percent of working-age beneficiaries of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) are young adults under the age of 30.

Youth with Disabilities at the Crossroads: The Intersection of Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Benefits for Youth with Disabilities

Using RSA-911 records matched to SSA administrative records, this paper adds to the knowledge about state VR agency provision of services to youth with disabilities and differences in outcomes based on SSA benefit receipt status.

InterRater Reliability Analysis of Data to Document the Consultative Examination Process Volume 2

Is There a Trade-off Between Quality and Cost? Telephone Versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of Persons with Disabilities

This working paper suggests that mode of interview has a modest impact on data quality for people with disabilities. It offers survey design steps that can minimize mode effects and maximize data quality.

Starting Behind: Wage and Employment Differentials Between Young Adults With and Without Disabilities (Journal Article)

We estimate the wage offers and employment of young adults with and without disabilities using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data.

Preparing for Life After High School: The Characteristics and Experiences of Youth in Special Education. A Summary of Key Findings from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012

This brief summarizes findings from surveys of secondary school youth with disabilities and their parents collected for the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012, conducted as part of an assessment of IDEA.

How Do Working-Age People with Disabilities Spend Their Time? New Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

We use the American Time Use Survey to examine the extent to which adults with disabilities—defined using both the new six-question sequence on disability and the traditional work-limitation question—spend more time on health-related activities and less time on other activities than those without disabilities....