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Feature Issue on Young Adults with Disabilities & Social Security Administration Employment Support Programs

Published by the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD) and the Research and Training Center on Community Living, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota • Volume 15 • Number 1 • Spring 2002


From the Editors

"Unemployment rates for working-age adults with disabilities have hovered at the 70 percent level for at least the past 12 years" notes the Executive Summary of the Bush Administration's New Freedom Initiative. The initiative, launched a year ago, expresses a strong federal commitment to removing remaining barriers to employment and all other aspects of community living for persons with disabilities. One priority is "swift implementation" of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. This act created incentives and opportunities for individuals with disabilities to receive the services and other supports needed to access education and employment options. The provisions of the act, in combination with Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), have the potential to help transition-age young people become valued employees and contributing community members. One of the barriers that remains to realizing that goal is lack of adequate understanding about these programs. This Impact seeks to address that need for greater understanding of these federal employment support programs and incentives, and to open the doors for more young people to utilize them as they move into adult life.


What's Inside


Overview Articles

Achieving a Dream of Attending College

The Importance of SSI Work Incentives for Transition-Aged Youth with Disabilities

Definitions of Terms (sidebar)

SSI and Postsecondary Education Support for Students with Disabilities

Supporting Families to Coordinate Cross-Agency Benefits and Utilize Work Incentives

Parental Expectations of Students Receiving Benefits (sidebar)

Implications of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program for Young Adults

SSA Employment Support Update


Program Profiles

Benefits Planning and Outreach Projects: Providing Beneficiaries with Information

The New Freedom Initiative and Ticket to Work (sidebar)

The I Can Work! Project: Enhancing Employability for Youth with Disabilities

Granting a 'Wish' to Help Someone Work (sidebar)

Planning for Something Other Than Poverty: Benefits Counseling in Vermont

Jason's Story (sidebar)

Benefits as a Bridge to Self-Sufficiency: The Minnesota Work Incentives Connection

What Are Work Incentives? (sidebar)

West Texas at Work: The West Texas Benefit Planning Outreach and Assistance Project

The Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) (sidebar)

Using Vocational Rehabilitation Funds to Support Study Abroad

The Impairment-Related Work Expense Incentive (sidebar)

Student-Directed Job Searches: Project WISER in Montana

Savvy Strategies to Simplify SSI: Stress Reducing Tips for Families (sidebar)

The Illinois Benefits Education for Transition-Age Youth Project

Resources for Further Information

The Student Earned Income Exclusion and the Earned Income Disregard (sidebar)

Are Most Students in Special Education Eligible for SSI? (sidebar)

Publication Information

Managing Editor: Vicki Gaylord

Issue Editors:

Thomas P. Golden
Program on Employment and Disability
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Susan O'Mara
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
David R. Johnson
Institute on Community Integration
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Impact is published quarterly by the Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD), and the Research and Training Center on Community Living, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.

This issue was supported, in part, by Grant #90DD0506/01 from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, US Department of Health and Human Services; Grant #H133B980047 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education; and Grant #USDE8023D70303 and Cooperative Agreement #H326J000005 from the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education.

The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute, College, University, or their funding sources.

For additional copies or information contact:

Institute on Community Integration
University of Minnesota
109 Pattee Hall, 150 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612/624-4512
icipub@umn.edu

Impact is available in alternative formats upon request.

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Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu). Citation: Gaylord, V., Golden, T.P., O'Mara, S., and Johnson, D.R. (Eds.). (2002). Impact: Feature Issue on Young Adults with Disabilities & Social Security Administration Employment Support Programs, 15(1) [online]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration. Available from http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/151.

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