Evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program, Implementation ...

Table IX.2 provides additional information on the Ticket assignment rates of AOIgroups 1 and 2. In all three phases, beneficiaries who need accommodations (group 2) weremore than twice as likely as those who need ongoing support (group 1) to have assignedtheir Tickets, and nearly three times as likely as all other beneficiaries to have done so.Among beneficiaries who have assigned their Tickets, those we have included in AOIgroups 1 and 2 are more likely than other beneficiaries to have assigned their Ticket to anSVRA (Table IX.3). Correspondingly, members of these two AOI groups are also morelikely than other beneficiaries to have assigned their Tickets under the traditional paymentsystem.145Table IX.1. Characteristics of Beneficiaries Who Need Ongoing Support, High-CostAccommodations, and Other Beneficiaries (Percent)Eligible BeneficiariesCharacteristicNeed Ongoing Support(AOI Group 1)Need High-CostAccommodations(AOI Group 2)All OthersDisability ProgramDI Only 55 64 59Concurrent 14 12 13SSI Only 31 24 29SexFemale 52 43 48Male 48 57 52Age18-24 7 8 325-29 5 5 330-34 7 7 535-39 9 9 840-44 12 11 1245-49 14 13 1450-54 15 15 1755-59 17 17 2160-64 13 14 17Language Requestedfor SSA CommunicationsEnglish 96 96 96Spanish 4 3 3Other 0 1 0Number of Beneficiariesin the Analysis 3,345,395 367,665 3,156,916Source: Ticket Research File data on beneficiaries eligible as of March 2004.Note:These data are not directly comparable to a similar table in the initial evaluation report,as more precise data on beneficiary eligibility were available by March 2004.IX: Adequacy of Incentives