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  • General listings of the work incentives for SSDI and SSI beneficiaries.
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  • Report provides policy frameworks to assist stakeholders (such as Medicaid directors, state legislators and cross-disability coalitions) design and implement Medicaid Buy-In programs and related work incentive initiatives to enhance the level of economic self-sufficiency of persons with significant disabilities.

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  • The Medicaid Buy-In program makes it easier for people with disabilities to work without losing health benefits. The program allows states to expand Medicaid coverage to workers with disabilities whose income and assets would ordinarily make them ineligible for Medicaid. This issue brief looks at Medicaid Buy-In participants who leave the program, as well as their participation in other public programs and their employment outcomes after they are no longer enrolled. This link opens a PDF document.

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  • This report, released on August 11, 2008 by the National Council on Disabilities (NCD), describes financial incentives affecting people with disabilities and presents research findings in key areas of peoples' lives such as education and health care. The report also suggests several strategies for securing meaningful employment, career advancement and benefits needed for daily living and accommodations.

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  • Review of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency program (TTW), which was designed to enhance the market for services that help disability beneficiaries become economically self-sufficient. This study looked at three key components: beneficiary demand for services; the supply of providers willing to serve those beneficiaries; and the Social Security Administration's (SSA) efforts to facilitate market operations. This link opens a PDF document.

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  • Summarizes findings of an evaluation of the first year of implementation of the Social Security Administration's Ticket to Work Program.
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  • Includes the findings, issues, conclusions and recommendations of the Panel regarding implementation of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act by the Social Security Administration and other federal agencies whose programs have an effect on the employment of people with disabilities.

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  • Special rules make it possible for people with disabilities receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to work and still receive monthly payments and Medicare or Medicaid. Social Security calls these rules "work incentives."

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  • Information on the monthly amounts of gross earnings considered in a Trial Work month. In 2009 monthly earnings of $700 will trigger a TWP.
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  • General Information about the Plan to Achieve Self-Support which can help people with disabilities who receive SSI return to work. Information about PASS is also available in Spanish.

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