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Unemployment Insurance Usage By Disabled Individuals, Kevin Hollenbeck Jan 2015

Unemployment Insurance Usage By Disabled Individuals, Kevin Hollenbeck

Kevin Hollenbeck

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.


British Columbia Workers' Compensation Core Services Review Revisited, H. Hunt Nov 2012

British Columbia Workers' Compensation Core Services Review Revisited, H. Hunt

H. Allan Hunt

This short-term project revisited the issues raised in the Service Delivery Core Review Report prepared for the Ministry of Skills Development and Labour in the Government of British Columbia, Canada in 2002. This project evaluated the administration of workers' compensation in British Columbia and made recommendations for change. WorkSafe BC requested an assessment of progress made since the 2002 after the goals and recommendations were implemented.