Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 66 No. 3, 2005/2006
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The Comprehensive Work Opportunity Initiative: Overcoming Multiple Barriers to Employment
This diagram is captioned "A variety of strategies are needed in order to overcome the multiple barriers to employment—regulatory changes and possible statutory changes, which can be assessed through a variety of demonstration projects."
The chart shows eight concentric squares, each representing an obstacle to employment; and twelve labeled balloons, each representing a component of the Comprehensive Work Opportunity Initiative, linked to the obstacle or obstacles it addresses.
Each obstacle is listed below, with the relevant components noted.
Obstacle 1: Psychological impact of the disability process.
Relevant components:
- Accelerated benefits demonstration,
- Early intervention demonstration,
- New disability process regulation.
Obstacle 2: Physical impact of delayed access to health care.
Relevant components:
- Accelerated benefits demonstration,
- Early intervention demonstration.
Obstacle 3: Lack of access to training and employment services.
Relevant components:
- One-stop program navigators,
- Stay-in-school regulation,
- Work activity/CDR regulation,
- Youth transition demonstrations.
Obstacle 4: Premature loss of benefits.
Relevant components:
- $1 for $2 benefit offset demonstrations,
- Early intervention demonstration,
- Ongoing medical support demonstrations,
- Youth transition demonstrations.
Obstacle 5: Loss of ongoing employment supports.
Relevant components:
- $1 for $2 benefit offset demonstrations,
- Ongoing medical support demonstrations,
- Revised Ticket to Work regulation.
Obstacle 6: DI cash cliff and SSI limits.
Relevant components:
- $1 for $2 benefit offset demonstrations.
Obstacle 7: Job loss and difficulty of reinstatement.
Relevant components:
- Expedited reinstatement regulation.
Obstacle 8: Work related overpayments.
Relevant components:
- Overpayment prevention initiative.