Youth Transition Exploration Demonstration
Published Date: 1/17/2025
Notice
Summary
Starting January 17, 2025, the Social Security Administration is launching the Youth Transition Exploration Demonstration to help young people with disabilities get better job support as they move into adulthood. This project changes some income rules for certain Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients to test if extra counseling and training referrals boost long-term employment. The trial runs until the end of 2028 and aims to make work easier and more rewarding for youth with disabilities.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Earned Income Excluded for SSI Participants
If you are an SSI recipient who is placed in the YTED treatment group and consent to data sharing, SSA will not offset your SSI payments when you earn income. In other words, all earned income for those treatment-group SSI participants is excluded from SSI income counting for the duration of the project through December 31, 2028.
Participant Earnings Not Deemed to Family SSI
For treatment-group SSI participants who consent, SSA will not apply deeming of the participant’s earnings against other family members who receive SSI, such as a child or spouse. This waiver of deeming for participant earnings is in effect for the treatment group through December 31, 2028, with specific exceptions for income from non-participant parents of participants under age 18 and non-participant spouses.
Enhanced Job Counseling and Training Referrals
Youth with disabilities ages 16 through 24 who live in specified Pennsylvania counties and enroll in the YTED treatment group may receive enhanced counseling, referrals to intensive training programs, help applying for training, placement coordination, and benefits counseling. Mathematica and the Pennsylvania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation expect to recruit up to 700 participants for this randomized trial that runs from January 17, 2025 through December 31, 2028.
OASDI and Concurrent Beneficiaries Excluded
The alternate income rules in YTED do not apply to participants who receive Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits under title II or who receive concurrent title II and title XVI benefits. Those individuals will not receive the SSI income-counting waivers being tested in the demonstration.
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