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Social Security and Mental Illness: Reducing Disability with Supported Employment
04/07/2009 | 548 Requests *Summary
The largest and fastest growing group of Social Security disability program beneficiaries is people with psychiatric disabilities. The paper finds that combining evidence-based supported employment with mental health services could reduce the rate of disability and enable those already disabled to gain employment, potentially saving personal and government money. Four policy recommendations are given to achieve this goal.
Author
Drake, Robert E.; Skinner, Jonathan S.; Bond, Gary R.; Goldman, Howard H.
Available Files
- Paper PDF (270K, 10 pages)
Keywords
Independent Living; Evidence-Based Practice; Social Security Disability Insurance; SSDI; Supplemental Security Income; SSI; insurance; incentives; Health Affairs 28, no. 3 (2009): 761–770; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.762];
Topic
Employment Programs, Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness, Sustainability
Type/Tool
Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers, Reports
Source
Health Affairs
State
All States/Territories
Date Created
06/04/2009
Contact
Robert Drake
Professor of Psychiatry
Dartmouth Medical School
Robert.E.Drake@Dartmouth.edu
Professor of Psychiatry
Dartmouth Medical School
Robert.E.Drake@Dartmouth.edu
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