Supplemental Security Income: SSA Could Strengthen Its Efforts To Encourage Employment For Transition-Age Youth

On May 15, 2017, the federal Government Accountability Office released this report on supplemental security income (SSI) and how the Social Security Administration (SSA) could strengthen its efforts to encourage employment for transition-age youth. Suggestions include:

Analyze Student Earned Income Exclusion (SEIE) data to determine why large portion of transition-age youth with reported income did not benefit from SEIE and take steps, if warranted, to ensure they do.
SSA should explore various options for increasing connections to Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), stating that in addition to assessing options for referring youth to VR and/or changing the Ticket to . . .