Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) – When Financial Work Incentives Pay for Themselves: Early Findings from the Self-Sufficiency Project’s Applicant Study
This report examines SSP’s impacts on applicants’ employment, income, and use of income assistance during the first 30 months after random assignment (that is, 18 months after sample members could first receive supplement payments).
Project Details
Published: May 1999
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Income Security - Welfare and Employment
Population: Low-skilled Workers - Social Assistance Recipients - Women - Communities and Families - EI Recipients - Low-income Populations
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