Beneficiaries Receiving Specific Benefits
 

Intensive Benefit Support Recipients with Psychiatric Disabilities

In terms of other benefits, those with psychiatric disabilities were only about half as likely to receive private health insurance, but much more likely to receive subsidized housing or food stamps than those without psychiatric disabilities.

Percentage of Beneficiaries Receiving Specific Benefits for
Intensive Benefit Support Recipients with Psychiatric Disabilities
Benefit Psychiatric Disability (N=16,372) Non-Psychiatric Disability (N=30,127)
Food Stamps
4.3
8.2
Subsidized Housing
20.7
13.0
Private Health Insurance
24.9
17.5

 


VCU Benefits Assistance Resource Center
Preliminary Draft - Subject to Further Verification
March 31, 2003