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Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings from the Demonstration States

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  • Gretchen Kirby
  • Margaret Sullivan
  • Elizabeth Potamites
  • Jackie Kauff
  • Elizabeth Clary
  • Charles McGlew

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Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) are self-managed accounts of $3,000 offered to select recipients of Unemployment Insurance benefits to support individual choice and control in reemployment services and promote a quick return to work.

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  • Gretchen Kirby & Margaret Sullivan & Elizabeth Potamites & Jackie Kauff & Elizabeth Clary & Charles McGlew, 2008. "Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings from the Demonstration States," Mathematica Policy Research Reports b3fc4793f7f84602bd7095cac, Mathematica Policy Research.
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