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Do Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients access work incentive programs?

Check out the latest Think Work DataNote Plus, which summarizes 20 years of Social Security Administration data from 2003–2023 on SSI recipients’ use of work incentives: https://tinyurl.com/tv7p3h8y

Through a Delphi process, researchers explored the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waiver elements that most contribute to increasing integrated employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

What did they find? Check out the latest ThinkWork Research to Practice brief:https://www.thinkwork.org/sites/default/files/files/RP_68_R.pdf

Over the past 3 decades, employment rates have shifted in response to major economic cycles. These times of growth and recession have impacted the workforce, especially for people with disabilities.

Read the latest Institute for Community Inclusion DataNote 103 about how these patterns highlight opportunities for us to strengthen policies and supports that promote workforce participation for people with disabilities: https://tinyurl.com/mw7skwvy

Think Work's latest Data Note 89 describes the characteristics, services received, and employment outcomes of adults with an intellectual disability who exited from the vocational rehabilitation program during fiscal years 2014 through 2023. Read Data Note 89 to compare the findings of adults with intellectual disability to the findings of people with other disabilities!

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On Thursday, August 29 at 1pm ET, Think Work is hosting an ES-Coach open house for your team of employment support professionals! ES-Coach can help your team fully leverage supported and customized employment best practices so that more job seekers achieve their career goals. Register today: https://buff.ly/3WMPOgU

This summer, the Progressive Employment Learning Collaborative convened at ICI in Boston to discuss lessons learned about Progressive Employment’s impact on job seekers with disabilities and businesses in our communities.

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Work incentive programs for people with disabilities are historically underused. From 2000–2021, the Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) program has seen a 77% decrease in participation. How can employment services professionals encourage incentive programs like PASS?

Read the Administration for Community Living, Think Work Blue Book for employment & economic self-sufficiency trends for people with IDD: https://buff.ly/49QfXk4

Most people with intellectual disability who left with a job in 2021 were young white men. We must continue to examine and address race, gender, and age disparities in VR services across the US. Read the Administration for Community Living, Think Work Blue Book for more: https://buff.ly/49QfXk4

State intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) agencies continue to emphasize the importance of integrated employment, though participation in integrated employment services varies widely from 3% to 83%.

Read the Administration for Community Living, Think Work Blue Book for employment & economic self-sufficiency trends for people with IDD: https://buff.ly/49QfXk4

Calling all employment services providers! Have you experienced difficulty hiring workers to provide employment services? Think Work would like to hear your story! What strategies did your organization use to recruit and retain employment services staff?
Learn more about how to share your story:

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People with disabilities have poorer economic outcomes than people without disabilities. In 2021, only 40% of people with disabilities had paid jobs, compared to 74% of people without disabilities. Nearly 25% of working-age people with disabilities lived in poverty, compared to just over 10% of people without disabilities.

Read the full Administration for Community Living, Think Work Blue Book for the latest trends on employment and economic self-sufficiency for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: https://buff.ly/49QfXk4