The National Council on Disbility has completed a report on The Social Security Administration's Efforts to Promote Employment for People with Disabilities: New Solutions for Old Problems. The report recommends:
- Better customer service at SSA
- Improve the Ticket to Work program by including claimants whose conditions are expected to improve
- Better benefit planning for Social Security disability recipients who want to return to work
- Reduce the number of work related overpayments to claimants
- Eliminate the marriage penalty [for Disabled Adult Children beneficiaries? The report talks about a marriage penalty in SSI, however.]
- Change the "cash cliff" to a ramp when disability recipients return to work
- Consider rules that would allow SSI recipients to accummulate assets
- Reduce the complexity of the rules affecting return to work
- Make improvements in Medicare to encourage return to work
- Allow traditional Vocational Rehabilitation to participate in Ticket to Work
- Possibly allow Department of Labor Career Centers to receive reimbursement for helping beneficiaries under the Ticket to Work program
- Get the Department of Education more involved in transition planning for disabled young adults who are about to leave school
- Expand the Student Earned Income Exclusion and Program for Achieving Self Support efforts
- Consider the possibility of changing the tax laws to add a disabled person tax credit
- Develop an outreach program to small and mid-sized businesses to encourage more employment of the disabled.
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