The Ticket to Work program does not eliminate the VR cost reimbursement payment system
which pays State VR agencies (and, until phased out, alternate participants) for the
cost of services they provide to a beneficiary/recipient who performs 9 continuous
months of substantial gainful activity (SGA) and meets certain other reimbursement
conditions. The Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (Public
Law 106-170) phased out alternate participants receiving payment for service.[Comment:
Consider whether to omit the reference to alternate participants entirely, as the
phase out is presumably complete. See 20 C.F.R. § 411.720.]