Today, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-CT) and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) sent a letter directing the U.S. Department of Labor to halt consideration of a proposed transfer of the Ticket to Work program from the Social Security Administration to the U.S. Department of Labor. The Ticket to Work program provides services to help Social Security and Supplemental Security Income disability beneficiaries who are attempting to return to work.
“In 1999, Congress placed the new Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency program (Ticket program) under the Social Security Administration (SSA), because of the close coordination between SSA and program participants, including beneficiaries and service providers, that is essential to the operation of the Ticket Program. Nothing has changed to warrant a transfer to the Department of Labor (DOL),” wrote Larson and Davis.
“By law, the Department of Labor does not administer the Ticket program,” continued Larson and Davis. “We do not intend to consider legislation to remove the administration of the Ticket program from SSA and place it at DOL. We therefore expect the Department to halt any further consideration of this inappropriate and detrimental proposal.”
Nov 15, 2020
Issuing A Directive
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Well SSA hasn't done much with the Ticket to Work Program. Let another agency try...
Bad idea in terms of giving block grants to states - would have shut down a lot of businesses (Ticket to Work service providers)and put people out of work. Granted, the program could not have been more poorly designed, but handing it off to Labor would probably still leave to bad pieces intact (complicated policies and overpayments).
It really didn't do much, maybe it should have been connected to Vocational Rehabilitation which doesn't do much either.
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