PMID- 36652156
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230913
LR  - 20230922
IS  - 1573-3688 (Electronic)
IS  - 1053-0487 (Print)
IS  - 1053-0487 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 3
DP  - 2023 Sep
TI  - The Impact of Work Incentives Benefits Counseling on Employment Outcomes: A 
      National Vocational Rehabilitation Study.
PG  - 538-549
LID - 10.1007/s10926-022-10092-1 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Millions of Americans receiving Social Security Administration (SSA) 
      disability benefits aspire to work and reduce reliance on disability benefits, 
      but find the rules about entering or rejoining the workforce too complex or 
      confusing and fear that working will cause loss of important benefits. PURPOSE: A 
      case control study was conducted to investigate the impact of receiving work 
      incentives benefits counseling (WIBC) on employment outcomes, and its 
      relationship with demographic covariates for U.S. vocational rehabilitation (VR) 
      clients who are SSA disability benefit recipients. METHOD: Data for this study 
      were extracted from the Rehabilitation Service Administration (RSA-911) database. 
      Mahalanobis distance matching procedures were used to match clients who received 
      WIBC with those who did not receive it. Chi-square independence tests and 
      independent samples t tests were used to compare receipt of WIBC and employment 
      outcomes based on the demographic variables. Additionally, chi squared automatic 
      interaction detection (CHAID) analysis was used to divide VR clients into 
      homogeneous groups based on the covariates. RESULTS: Clients who received WIBC 
      were more likely to obtain competitive integrated employment (CIE). Impairment 
      type, referral source, long-term employment and education level were 
      significantly associated with CIE for clients who received WIBC. Additionally, VR 
      clients with sensory/communicative impairments and low-income status were less 
      likely to receive WIBC. CONCLUSION: Modifying VR structure to be more inclusive; 
      understanding of stigma; and increasing the functioning, psychological well-being 
      and self-efficacy of VR clients might improve employment outcomes.
CI  - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business 
      Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Kaya, Cahit
AU  - Kaya C
AD  - University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA. rehber.cahit@gmail.com.
AD  - Department of Educational Sciences, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey. 
      rehber.cahit@gmail.com.
FAU - Bishop, Malachy
AU  - Bishop M
AD  - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA.
FAU - Torres, Ayse
AU  - Torres A
AD  - Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230118
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Occup Rehabil
JT  - Journal of occupational rehabilitation
JID - 9202814
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - United States
MH  - *Rehabilitation, Vocational/methods
MH  - *Motivation
MH  - Case-Control Studies
MH  - Employment
MH  - Counseling
PMC - PMC9846657
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Benefits counseling
OT  - Impairment
OT  - Mahalanobis distance matching
OT  - Rehabilitation Service Administration
OT  - Vocational rehabilitation
COIS- We have no conflicts of interest to declare.
EDAT- 2023/01/19 06:00
MHDA- 2023/09/13 06:41
PMCR- 2023/01/18
CRDT- 2023/01/18 11:27
PHST- 2022/12/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/09/13 06:41 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/18 11:27 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1007/s10926-022-10092-1 [pii]
AID - 10092 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10926-022-10092-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Occup Rehabil. 2023 Sep;33(3):538-549. doi: 10.1007/s10926-022-10092-1. Epub 
      2023 Jan 18.