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 113 STAT. 1860 PUBLIC LAW 106-170—DEC. 17, 1999 Public Law 106-170 106th Congress An Act Dec. 17, 1999 [H.R. 1180] Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. 42 USC 1305 note. To amend the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to Work and Self- Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration to provide such individuals with meaningful opportunities to work, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE. —This Act may be cited as the "Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— The table of contents is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings and purposes. TITLE I—TICKET TO WORK AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND RELATED PROVISIONS Subtitle A—Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Sec. 101. Establishment of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program. Subtitle B—Elimination of Work Disincentives Sec. 111. Work activity standard as a basis for review of an individual's disabled status. Sec. 112. Expedited reinstatement of disability benefits. Subtitle C—Work Incentives Planning, Assistance, and Outreach Sec. 121. Work incentives outreach program. Sec. 122. State grants for work incentives assistance to disabled beneficiaries. TITLE II—EXPANDED AVAILABILITY OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES Sec. 201. Expanding State options under the medicaid program for workers with disabilities. Sec. 202. Extending medicare coverage for OASDI disability benefit recipients. Sec. 203. Grants to develop and establish State infrastructures to support working individuals with disabilities. Sec. 204. Demonstration of coverage under the medicaid program of workers with {)otentially severe disabilities, ection by disabled beneficiaries to suspend medigap insurance when covered under a group health plan. TITLE III—DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS AND STUDIES Sec. 301. Extension of disability insurance program demonstration project authority. Sec. 302. Demonstration projects providing for reductions in disability insurance benefits based on earnings. Sec. 303. Studies and reports. TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS Sec. 401. Technical amendments relating to drug addicts and alcoholics. Sec. 402. Treatment of prisoners.

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