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Which Medicaid Recipients Might Be Eligible for SSI?

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  • Michael Levere
  • David Wittenburg

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Though safety net programs offer important benefits, take-up is often incomplete. Using machine learning models on Medicaid data, we estimate the take-up rate for children’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the characteristics of potentially eligible children with disabilities who do not receive benefits. Using more than 1,000 measures of health-care utilization, we estimate state-specific models that generate the probability that each child not receiving SSI is eligible. Using the expected number of potentially eligible children, the implied take-up of SSI is approximately 70 percent. Potentially eligible children have intensive health-care usage, often more intensive than current child SSI recipients.

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  • Michael Levere & David Wittenburg, 2026. "Which Medicaid Recipients Might Be Eligible for SSI?," National Tax Journal, University of Chicago Press, vol. 79(2), pages 363-392.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:nattax:doi:10.1086/739783
    DOI: 10.1086/739783
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