Retaining Employment and
Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) demonstration
New
collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
No
Regular
03/22/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
25,528
0
6,438
0
0
0
The Social Security Administration and
the Department of Labor are undertaking the Retaining Employment
and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) demonstration,
which will test promising early intervention approaches to improve
the labor force participation and retention of individuals with
recently-acquired injuries and disabilities and to reduce their
future need for Social Security disability benefits. The Department
of Labor (DOL) is funding the intervention approaches and American
Institutes for Research to provide programmatic technical
assistance for the demonstration. The Social Security
Administration (SSA) is funding Mathematica to provide evaluation
support for the demonstration, including evaluation-related
technical assistance and conducting a comprehensive evaluation. The
RETAIN demonstration consists of two Phases. The first involves
cooperative awards to eight states to conduct planning and start-up
activities, including the launch of a small pilot. During Phase 1,
SSA will provide evaluation-related technical assistance and
planning, and conduct evaluability assessments to assess which
states’ projects would allow for a rigorous evaluation if continued
beyond the pilot phase. DOL will select a subset of the states to
continue to Phase 2, full implementation. During Phase 2, DOL will
fund the operations and programmatic technical assistance
activities for the selected states, and SSA will fund a full set of
evaluation activities.
This is a new information
collection that will increase the public reporting burden.
$3,866,667
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Faye Lipsky 410 965-8783
faye.lipsky@ssa.gov
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
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benefit, or mandatory);
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