Title
Unemployment Insurance Usage by Disabled Individuals
Project Dates
01/20/2011-3/18/2011
Description
Using administrative data from the State of Washington, the study cross-walked Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit data with information on enrollment in other programs that may have identified participants as having a disability, such as vocational rehabilitation or Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs in which individuals self-reported disability status. By cross-walking the data to Vocational Rehabilitation and WIA, the profile that was developed provided a sense of what portion of a state’s long-term unemployed may have had a disability.
Sponsorship
Heldrich Center for Workforce Development (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
Subject Area
UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY, Unemployment insurance, Workers compensation and disability
Publications
The Interaction of Workforce Development Programs and Unemployment Compensation by Individuals with Disabilities in Washington State. Kevin Hollenbeck; issued by NTAR Leadership Center, New Brunswick, NJ. (2011)