This article describes the legislative history of Public Law 99-643, the Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act, and contains a summary of the provisions of the new law. The intent of this legislation is to enhance the work incentives for the disabled and blind under the supplemental security income (SSI) law. The law makes permanent and improves section 1619 of the Social Security...

Congress enacted Section 1619 of the Social Security Act to enable the disabled receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to obtain jobs and still retain Medicaid health benefits. Congress intended this work incentive to remove the fear of the severely disabled that by obtaining employment they would lose Medicaid benefits. Based on data from 11 States, our analysis found that Medicaid expen...

Given that one of the main reasons prioritising public policy agendas is related to implementing action responding to the increase in the prevalence of disability and the violation people of such people's rights, governments in many parts of the world have advanced disability certification as a tool for claiming rights, seeking to comply with the principles of dignity, liberty, equality and non...

BACKGROUND Treatment as prevention is a paradigm in HIV medicine which describes the public health benefit of antiretroviral therapy (ART). It is based on research showing substantial reductions in the risk of HIV transmission in persons with optimally suppressed HIV-1 Viral Loads (VL). The present study describes ten year VL trends at the national HIV treatment unit and estimates VL suppressio...

Disability is usually referred to as an individual’s disadvantage. Helping a person with disability is perceived as an act of distribution of benefits and sharing of burdens. Persons with disabilities make up a significant part of the world’s population an estimated 1 in every 10 people, amounting to 650 million people (UNFA REPORT 2009). This includes persons who are blind, deaf, or have other...

in this article, the discrete time state space model with first-order autoregressive dependent process noise is considered and the recursive method for filtering, prediction and smoothing of the hidden state from the noisy observation is designed. the explicit solution is obtained for the hidden state estimation problem. finally, in a simulation study, the performance of the designed method ...

In standard automatic speech recognition (ASR), hidden Markov models (HMMs) calculate their emission probabilities by an artificial neural network (ANN) or a Gaussian distribution conditioned only upon the hidden state variable. Recent work [12] showed the benefit of conditioning the emission distributions also upon a discrete auxiliary variable, which is observed in training and hidden in reco...

abstractthe aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the glass ceiling on women creative ideas working in administrative province units of lorestan state with moderating of their self-concept variable. the population of this cross-correlation, stady was all women employees of administrative province.units of lorestan state. using stratified sampling,and basis of morgan 306 persons select...

INTRODUCTION One out of three persons aged 65 and older falls annually and 20% to 30% of falls result in injury. The purpose of this cost-benefit analysis was to identify community-based fall interventions that were feasible, effective, and provided a positive return on investment (ROI). METHODS A third-party payer perspective was used to determine the costs and benefits of three effective fa...

As the size of the overall centenarian population in the United States increases, the number of centenarians participating in Social Security Administration programs grows as well. This note offers some statistical information about centenarians receiving Social Security-Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)--benefits and/or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments, highlighti...