Long-Term Work Activity & Use Of Employment Supports Among New Supplemental Security Income Recipients

This report, written by Yonatan Ben-Shalom, a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research and David Stapleton, director of Mathematica's Center for Studying Disability Policy, was published in February 2015 by the federal Social Security Administration (SSA) in the 2015 Social Security Bulletin. The authors conducted a longitudinal analysis of work activity among a cohort of 358,157 adults ages 18 to 64 with disabilities who were awarded Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2001. They found that between 2001 and December 2007, 9.8% had worked enough for at least one month that they gave up their . . .