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The Bottom Line: Employment And Barriers To Work Among Former Ssi Da&A Beneficiaries, Kevin Campbell, Jim Baumohl, Sharon R. Hunt
The Bottom Line: Employment And Barriers To Work Among Former Ssi Da&A Beneficiaries, Kevin Campbell, Jim Baumohl, Sharon R. Hunt
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for drug addicts and alcoholists (DA&A beneficiaries) ended in January 1997 without any special effort to create employment for those who lost benefits. Relying on data from a nine-site, two-year panel study of 1,764 former DA&A recipients and detailed semistructured interviews with subsamples in four sites, this paper examines employment outcomes and barriers to employment among 611 respondents who lost SSI and did not replace it with another form of publicly funded income assistance. Despite the tight labor market of the late 1990s, this group was plagued by widespread unemployment and sub-employment. At the …