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Table VI.2:
TTW Participation Rates for AOI and Other Beneficiaries (Percent)
Eligible Beneficiaries
AOI Group 1 AOI Group 2 All Other
Overall Ticket Assignment Rates
Phase 1 States 0.78 1.40 0.55
Phase 2 States 0.28 0.50 0.21
Ticket Assignment Rates for the
New Payment Systems
Phase 1 States 0.11 0.11 0.08
Phase 2 States 0.07 0.10 0.06
NOTE: Figures are for the end of August 2003.
Table VI.3: Ticket Assignments to Different Provider Types and Payment Systems for
AOI and Other Beneficiaries (Percent)
Eligible Beneficiaries in Phase 1 & 2 States
AOI Group 1 AOI Group 2 All Other
Provider Type
SVRA 88 94 86
EN 12 6 14
Payment System
Traditional Payment System 83 89 82
Outcome-Only 3 2 4
Milestone-Outcome 13 9 14
NOTE: Figures are for the end of August 2003.
As with the general TTW program, beneficiaries classified in the two AOI groups have
overwhelmingly assigned their Tickets to an SVRA (Table VI.3). Looking just at Ticket
users in the Phase 1 states, 88 percent of those in AOI group 1 used an SVRA, which is only
slightly larger than the percentage for all Ticket users (86 percent). However, 94 percent of
beneficiaries we classified in AOI group 2 used an SVRA. Correspondingly, the AOI
beneficiaries are largely served under the traditional payment system rather than under either
of the two new TTW payment systems.
D. RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TTW FOR AOI GROUPS
It is too early to measure the relative effect of TTW on the employment and benefit
receipt of beneficiaries in the AOI groups. To give the program time to deliver the required
services, to afford beneficiaries time to obtain and hold jobs, and to gather the required data
we do not expect to present results on program effects until much later in the evaluation.
VI: Adequacy of Incentives Study