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other disincentives and barriers to employment will need to be addressed before it is possible
for large numbers of beneficiaries to achieve self-sufficiency through employment.
In any event, changes should be made quickly in order to preserve the TTW program’s
current momentum. Participation rates were still rising through August 2003, the last month
for which we have data, but ENs are continuing to drop out of the program. As a result,
beneficiaries may face reduced choices and program enrollments may stagnate. The loss of
momentum is not the end of TTW, but may make it harder to SSA to provide the choices
and opportunities that TTW promises to beneficiaries.
VII: Conclusions and Implications