Social Security’s Ticket to Work Program Hosting First Disability Employment Twitter Chat on March 30th
Topic: “Career Help for People with Developmental Disabilities”
When: Friday, March 30, 2012, 1:30 p.m., EST
Where and How: Follow @chooseworkssa and the hashtag #DEChat on Twitter
9 comments:
Career help in 140 characters or less. That boosts my confidence!
I was going to make a anide comment about how the TTW program has bigger problems than gimmicky public relations stunts, but I honestly couldn't find any solid information on the success/failure of this program. Has this thing every been evaluated by the GAO or anyone since the 2008 reforms?
Ah, I did find some GAO reports from 2011. And they basically say that it's difficult to find how the TTW money is being used and so it's difficult to evaluate it...
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=245997
it's a boondoggle...great example of the addage, more money will solve the problem.
The idea is great, encourage people to work and ultimately remove them from the roles of the "disabled." However it's poorly implemented.
Additionally, the most important fact, which the "disabled" find out: once they are trained and able to work, they are typically only qualified for minimum wage jobs and therefore have little (really none) incentive to actually work. Why would anyone take minimum wage ($7.40/hour = $1282/month) when they can get benefits that require NO work, which are almost equal to what they would make working a full-time job.
Working is hard...getting free money from the government isn't.
On the other hand, some disabled folks try to work and find they can only do so at a limited level. (Either part-time or accomodated/subsidized work or a series of unsuccessful work attempts) SSA usually asks about IRWE, but is so short-staffed, it is not always developing for subsidy/accomodation/uwas.
These folks can find themselves with their social security checks being ceased and getting letters that they owe many thousands of dollars of overpayments. SSA is not developing these cases properly, nor timely.
If my mother was on disability, I'd tell her never to even try to work unless she was willing to repay every disability check ever received.
"If my mother was on disability, I'd tell her never to even try to work"
If she was "on disability" she shouldn't be working at all. The definition of disabilty is something like "unable to work at any job."
TTW has been a boondoggle from the beginning. It's a tremendous waste of money, and only serves to make money for the employment networks.
8:04 am, SSA's definition of disability is not the inability to work at any job, but the inability to work at substantial gainful levels. big difference. So if the issue for the dude's mom is education or job training (which the grids assume she does not retain as she gets older) then i see real value in getting people to work.
The problem is there is no incentive for them to do so, as has been stated in all these comments.
Figured a claimant's finacial assistance the other day. If she were paying taxes, she would have to make about $20.00 an hour to have what she is currently receiving from all finacial assitance. I can not think of any reason she would ever try to go to work. With her background and abilities she is not worth over $8.00 an hour. An thus the system continues to redistribute the wealth..
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