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Business Tax Incentives: Incentives to Employ Workers with Disabilities Receive Limited Use and Have an Uncertain Impact

GAO-03-39 Published: Dec 11, 2002. Publicly Released: Dec 11, 2002.
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More than 17 million working-age individuals have a self-reported disability that limits work. Their unemployment rate is also twice as high as for those without a work disability, according to recent Census data. In the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, the Congress mandated that GAO study and report on existing tax incentives to encourage businesses to employ and accommodate workers with disabilities. This report provides information on (1) the current usage of the tax incentives, (2) the incentives' ability to encourage the hiring and retention of workers with disabilities, and (3) options to enhance awareness and usage of the incentives.

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Employees with disabilitiesEmployment of the disabledHiring policiesStaff utilizationTax creditSmall businessDisabilitiesWorkers with disabilitiesTax incentivesFederal hiring