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Title: The RETAIN Demonstration: Comparing RETAIN Enrollees with Other Populations
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: The Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) demonstration, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Social Security Administration (SSA), aims to help workers with recently acquired injuries and disabilities remain in the labor force. Following a pilot phase, DOL awarded cooperative agreements to state agencies in Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, and Vermont to fully implement RETAIN services. These five RETAIN programs aim to identify and recruit a subset of workers who could be at risk of exiting the labor force and applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). In this brief, we compare the characteristics of people who enrolled in RETAIN in 2022 with all workers and with applicants for SSDI and SSI, in their respective states. Characteristics of RETAIN enrollees differed substantially from those of the two comparison populations. On average, RETAIN enrollees had lower recent earnings than workers in their state but higher earnings than applicants for disability benefits. We also found significant differences between RETAIN enrollees and the comparison populations in sociodemographic characteristics, such as gender, age, race and ethnicity, and education. The findings illustrate how RETAIN enrollees differ from the states' worker populations and the extent to which the RETAIN demonstration projects are reaching people who might be at greatest risk of applying for disability benefits.
Url: https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/documents/ComparingRETAINEnrollees.pdf
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Authors: Farid, Monica; Patnaik, Ankita; Ben-Shalom, Yonatan
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Aging and Retirement, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare
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