Evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program Initial Evaluation Report

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A-4 Table A.3 Percentage of Eligible Beneficiaries with Ticket in Use, Phase 1 and 2 States, February 2002 through August 2003 (Complements Figure IV.3) Phase 1 States Phase 2 States Feb-02 0.06 0.00 Mar-02 0.34 0.09 Apr-02 0.23 0.20 May-02 0.20 0.18 Jun-02 0.22 0.22 Jul-02 0.29 0.25 Aug-02 0.36 0.30 Sep-02 0.39 0.34 Oct-02 0.44 0.02 Nov-02 0.46 0.04 Dec-02 0.48 0.09 Jan-03 0.53 0.09 Feb-03 0.55 0.11 Mar-03 0.56 0.15 Apr-03 0.60 0.18 May-03 0.65 0.20 Jun-03 0.68 0.23 Jul-03 0.71 0.25 Aug-03 0.74 0.27 Appendix A: Data Tables
A-5 Table A.4 Percentage of Tickets Assigned to the Three Payment Systems, Phase 1 and 2 States, February 2002 through August 2003 (Complements Figure IV.4) Traditional Payment System Phase 1 Phase 2 Traditional Outcome Milestone + Payment Outcome Only Outcome System Only Milestone + Outcome Feb-02 69 5 26 -- -- -- Mar-02 82 4 14 -- -- -- Apr-02 78 5 18 -- -- -- May-02 76 4 20 -- -- -- Jun-02 77 4 19 -- -- -- Jul-02 77 4 19 -- -- -- Aug-02 78 3 18 -- -- -- Sep-02 79 3 18 -- -- -- Oct-02 81 3 16 -- -- -- Nov-02 82 3 16 72 2 26 Dec-02 82 3 15 64 8 28 Jan-03 82 3 15 65 8 27 Feb-03 83 3 14 64 6 30 Mar-03 83 3 14 67 7 26 Apr-03 84 3 13 69 6 25 May-03 85 3 12 71 7 23 Jun-03 86 3 11 73 6 21 Jul-03 87 3 11 74 6 20 Aug-03 87 3 11 75 6 20 Appendix A: Data Tables
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Contract No.: 0600-03-60130 MPR Ref
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A CKNOWLEDGMENTS This report benefi
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C ONTENTS Chapter Page ACRONYMS ...
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vii Chapter Page V (continued) D. C
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A CRONYMS ABIL AIDS AWICs AOI BPAO
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E XECUTIVE S UMMARY T he Ticket to
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Overall, we found that SSA has impl
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money on their TTW operations. For
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xvii CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS SSA fa
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C HAPTER I O VERVIEW OF THE T ICKET
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The TTW program and other elements
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A. EVALUATION COMPONENTS: GOALS, SC
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7 ! How many beneficiaries particip
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9 B. PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION OF TH
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C HAPTER II S TRUCTURE AND B ACKGRO
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In reality, however, the success of
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MAXIMUS to serve as the Program Man
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17 4. Participate in the activities
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N Decision Reversed Request SSA Rev
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21 c. Dispute Resolution In a progr
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Table II.1: Outcome-Only and Milest
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milestone payment is equal to 34 pe
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Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage da
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29 3. Related Initiatives TTW has n
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SSA Demonstrations. SSA plans to im
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Protection and Advocacy. The SSA-fu
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C HAPTER III TTW EARLY I MPLEMENTAT
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37 Table III.1: TTW Implementation
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Ticket-eligible beneficiaries were
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41 TTW. In the past, SSA systems ha
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information in SSA’s records cont
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work period automation and tracking
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Systems and Infrastructure. The Pro
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49 asked the Program Manager for a
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51 • The first payment for each b
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currently being addressed relate to
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payment system. Only one SVRA (Okla
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SVRA personnel have consistently ex
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59 • Are SVRAs permitted to requi
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Table III.4: ENs and ENs with Ticke
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Payment System. Many ENs do not bel
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example, reporting lags inherent in
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eceived only small amounts thus far
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SVRA services for Ticket clients; (
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C HAPTER IV E ARLY P ARTICIPATION P
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73 Figure IV.2: Cumulative Number o
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point in the Phase 1 rollout. For P
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77 Figure IV.7: First Assignments a
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79 Figure IV.8: Ticket Participatio
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81 Figure IV.10: Ticket Participati
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83 states. This finding suggests th
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There is a strong negative relation
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C HAPTER V C ASE S TUDIES OF E IGHT
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89 A. SERVICE MODELS AND TARGETED C
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Although the director was initially
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Clients who assign their Tickets to
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A PPENDIX C D EFINING THE F OUR A D
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B. IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS WITH A N
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“work and receive full cash benef
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