Disability Research
Empowering people with disabilities through research, demonstrations, and employment support
Research & Demonstrations
Temporary initiatives to identify services, supports, and policies to support people with disabilities.
- Developing Opportunities for ABLE (DO-ABLE) Account Holders Demonstration
- Interagency Cooperative Action Network (ICAN)
- Interventional Cooperative Agreement Program (ICAP)
- Promoting Work through Early Intervention Project (PWEIP)
- Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN)
- SOAR in Georgia County Jails Pilot (SGCJP)
- Supportive Housing & Individual Placement and Support (SHIPS)
- Vocational Resource Facilitation Demonstration (VRFD)
- Youth Transition Exploration Demonstration (YTED)
- Accelerated Benefits
- Benefit Offset - National Demonstration (BOND)
- Disability Program Navigator (DPN)
- Homeless Outreach Projects & Evaluation (HOPE)
- Mental Health Treatment Study (MHTS)
- Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (POD)
- Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE)
- State Partnership Initiative (SPI)
- Supported Employment Demonstration (SED)
- Technical Expert Panels (TEPs)
- Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD)
Articles, reports, evaluations, briefing papers, and other studies related to disability, work, and related topics.
- Cardiovascular Disability: Updating the Social Security Listings
- Consultative Examination (CE) Study
- Disability Determination Process Small Grant Program (DDP)
- Employment Network Payment Structure Evaluation
- HIV and Disability: Updating the Social Security Listings
- SSI Youth Community Based Services and Supports
- SSI Youth Employment Evidence Report
- TANF-SSI Disability Transition Project
- Ticket to Work Evaluation
- Vocational Expert Study Panel
- WIPA Service Model Analysis
Information released by SSA for the general public to use in statistical analyses.
Employment Support
Policies to help beneficiaries work by protecting cash and medical benefits.
Programs and services to help beneficiaries return to work and succeed in the labor force, including the Ticket to Work Program.
Research Funding Opportunities