scholarly journals Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability: Longitudinal Statistics from Matched Administrative Data

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Stapleton ◽  
Frank H. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Social Security Disability

Vocational rehabilitation on the road to Social Security Disability

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Stapleton ◽  
Frank H. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Wait Time ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
Program Objective ◽  
Rehabilitation Services Administration ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Social Security Disability ◽  
First Time

BACKGROUND: Vocational rehabilitation (VR) can potentially help disability-insured workers stay at work or return to work when they experience a disability. Such assistance could prevent or delay entry into the Social Security Disability (SSD) program. OBJECTIVE: We present descriptive statistics on the extent to which new VR applicants for 1998 through 2005 receive SSD benefits before or after VR application. METHODS: We matched Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA-911) records for the years 1998 through 2009 with the Social Security Administration’s program and earnings files. RESULTS: The analyses show that a substantial number of VR applicants entered SSD in the 60 months following VR application—more than 60,000 (12.3 percent) of the first-time VR applicants in 2002. The analyses also disclose variation in SSD entry across states, with some states accounting for entry percentages twice as high as that of others. We also found a positive relationship between our measure of wait time and entry into SSD. CONCLUSIONS: Although the large number of VR applicants entering SSD after VR application is modest compared to the number receiving an SSD award each year, the potential influence of VR services on later SSD and Medicare expenditures could be in the billions of dollars annually, in either direction.

Phase I development of the SGA Model: Use of administrative data and expert opinion to identify key components of the SGA Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Foley ◽  
Kelly Haines ◽  
Linda Mock
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Disability Income ◽  
Social Security Disability

BACKGROUND: The SGA Model Demonstration tested a coordinated team approach that integrated specific components of vocational rehabilitation services to determine if the model would increase earnings outcomes of Social Security Disability income beneficiaries who sought VR services in Kentucky and Minnesota. OBJECTIVE: This paper provides details on the first phase of development of the SGA intervention. METHODS: Researchers combined a Delphi process, key informant interviews, and administrative data review to identify practices that were high priority for inclusion in the model. RESULTS: Researchers reached a consensus on the high priority components to construct a testable intervention under the control of the vocational rehabilitation system. CONCLUSIONS: The SGA Project team identified three practice domains to guide an intensive case study for Phase II development of the intervention. These included pacing of services, work incentives counseling, and strategies for employment service delivery.

scholarly journals Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 1797-1829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Maestas ◽  
Kathleen J Mullen ◽  
Alexander Strand
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Social Security Disability Insurance ◽  
Insurance Benefit ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Program Entry ◽  
Social Security Disability

We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants. We use administrative data to match applications to disability examiners and exploit variation in examiners' allowance rates as an instrument for benefit receipt. We find that among the estimated 23 percent of applicants on the margin of program entry, employment would have been 28 percentage points higher had they not received benefits. The effect is heterogeneous, ranging from no effect for those with more severe impairments to 50 percentage points for entrants with relatively less severe impairments. (JEL H55, J14, J22)

Differential Analysis of Social Security Disability and Vocational Rehabilitation Applicants

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1248-1254
Author(s):  
Robert F. McClure
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Substance Abusers ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Academic Functioning ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Differential Analysis ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Mathematics Scores ◽  
Social Security Disability

An effort was made to differentiate the characteristics of clients who applied for Social Security Disability from those who applied for Vocational Rehabilitation. Psychological, diagnostic, intellectual, academic ability differences, and demographic factors of sex, age, and race between social security disability applicants and vocational rehabilitation applicants were examined. The latter were more intelligent and had higher academic functioning. Applicants for social security disability were less intelligent and tended to be functionally illiterate. Multiple discriminant analysis indicated that mathematics scores and differences in intelligence were the primary discriminants. Another difference appeared to be that rehabilitation clients tended to be diagnosed as substance abusers or learning disabled, while disability clients were more likely to be diagnosed as mentally retarded or having dementia.

Differential Analysis of Social Security Disability and Vocational Rehabilitation Applicants

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1248-1254
Author(s):  
Robert F. Mcclure
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Substance Abusers ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Academic Functioning ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Differential Analysis ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Mathematics Scores ◽  
Social Security Disability

An effort was made to differentiate the characteristics of clients who applied for Social Security Disability from those who applied for Vocational Rehabilitation. Psychological, diagnostic, intellectual, academic ability differences, and demographic factors of sex, age, and race between social security disability applicants and vocational rehabilitation applicants were examined. The latter were more intelligent and had higher academic functioning. Applicants for social security disability were less intelligent and tended to be functionally illiterate. Multiple discriminant analysis indicated that mathematics scores and differences in intelligence were the primary discriminants. Another difference appeared to be that rehabilitation clients tended to be diagnosed as substance abusers or learning disabled, while disability clients were more likely to be diagnosed as mentally retarded or having dementia.

Phase II of the SGA Project: Development of the coordinated team approach intervention

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Foley ◽  
Kelly Haines ◽  
Linda Mock
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Phase Ii ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Delphi Panel ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Social Security Disability

BACKGROUND: The SGA Model Demonstration tested a coordinated team approach to determine whether a combination of vocational rehabilitation practices improve earnings outcomes of clients who also receive Social Security Disability Insurance. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes Phase II of the development of the intervention. METHODS: Researchers and policy fellows conducted site visits, interviewed personnel from 8 State Vocational Rehabilitation agencies and related partners, drafted a proposed intervention and submitted it for review to a Delphi panel. RESULTS: Delphi ratings supported the proposed intervention as likely leading to improved earnings outcomes and recommended that the SGA Project develop training, technical assistance, and capacity building activities to support implementation. CONCLUSION: The SGA Project invested 2 years developing an intervention by examining administrative data, consulting national experts, interviewing SVRAs directors and more than 100 practitioners across eight SVRAs. Pacing metrics were built into a team approach that included a vocational counselor, work incentives counselor, and a job development/job placement specialist with a business relations focus.

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