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A National Profile of SSDI Recipients and Applicants

Implications for Early Intervention

Jae Kennedy

Washington State University at Spokane, jjkennedy{at}wsu.edu

Marjorie Olney

San Diego State University

Chrisann Schiro-Geist

University of Illinois at Urbana

Less than one half of 1% of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries currently return to work. The 1999 Ticket-to-Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (TWWIIA) charged the Social Security Administration with investigating early intervention strategies to divert some of the persons applying for benefits into work support programs before they enroll in SSDI. Any early intervention programming will require greater understanding of the claimant population. This analysis used data from the 1994 and 1995 National Health Interview Surveys to compare the estimated 3.3 million working-age SSDI claimants to the estimated 3.6 million beneficiaries. These comparisons showed substantial heterogeneity in both groups but found that claimants were less disabled, in better health, and more likely to be employed than beneficiaries. Both groups tended to have low incomes, and nearly 20% of claimants lacked health insurance. Approximately 70% of applicants (2.3 million) and beneficiaries (2.6 million) have not received vocational support services and do not believe that they need such services. These findings suggest that demand for vocational services vouchers may be low.

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, 178-185 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/10442073040150030601
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