A Guide To Work Incentives and Employment Supports for People Who Have a Disability Under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Programs
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WHAT’S NEW IN 2024?
- Automatic Adjustments Effective January 1, 2020
CONTACTING US
- How to Reach Social Security
- my Social Security
- Request copies of the Red Book or other SSA Publications
HOW DO WE DEFINE DISABILITY?
- Our Definition of Disability
- What is Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA)?
- How Do We Evaluate Your Work Activity fot SGA Purposes?
- What If You Are Self-employed?
OVERVIEW OF OUR DISABILITY PROGRAMS
- Social Security Disability Insurance Program (SSDI)
- Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI)
- When You Receive Both SSDI and SSI
- Comparison of the SSDI and SSI Disability Programs
RETURNING TO WORK
- What Are Your Responsibilities When You Return to Work?
- When Will We Review Your Disability?
- When Will Your Benefits Stop?
HOW DO EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS HELP?
- SSDI Employment Supports
- SSI Employment Supports
- Guide to Employment Supports
RESOURCES TO ASSIST YOU RETURN TO WORK
- Work Incentive Liaison (WIL)
- Area Work Incentives Coordinator (AWIC)
- Benefits Planning Query (BPQY)
- Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Projects
- Work Incentives Seminar (WISE)
- Employment Network and State Vocational Rehabilitation Providers
- Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS)
- Individual Development Accounts (IDA)
- Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE)
- American Job Centers
- Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
- The Guidepost to Success
- Federal Literary Information for Young People with Disabilities
- Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
- AmeriCorps
RESOURCES TO ASSIST YOUTH WITH THE TRANSITION TO A SUCCESSFUL ADULTHOOD 17
SSDI AND SSI EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS
SSDI AND SSI EMPLOYMENTS SUPPORTS
- Subsidy and Special Conditions
- Unsuccessful Work Attempt (UWA)
- Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE)
- Examples of Deductible and Non-Deductible IRWE
- Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS)
- Who Can Help You Set Up a PASS?
- Examples of a PASS
- Ticket to Work (TTW)
- Continued Payment under a Vocational Rehabilitation Program or Similar Program (Section 301)
- Expedited Reinstatement (EXR)
SSDI ONLY EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS
- Trial Work Period (TWP)
- Extended Period of Eligibility (EPE)
- Unincurred Business Expenses (Self-Employment)
- Continuation of Medicare Coverage
- Medicare for Persons with Disabilities Who Work
- SSDI at a Glance - What Happens When You Go to Work
SSI ONLY EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS
- Earned Income Exclusion
- Examples of the Earned Income Exclusion
- Student Earned Income Exclusion (SEIE)
- Property Essential to Self-Support (PESS)
- Special SSI Payments for Persons Who Work - Section 1619(a)
- Reinstating SSI Eligibility Without a New Application
- Special Benefits for Persons Eligible under 1619 Who Enter a Medical Facility
- Medicaid While Working – Section 1619(b
- 2019 State Threshold Amounts for Persons with Disabilities
- 2019 States with Separate Threshold Amounts for Blind Persons
SPECIAL RULES PERSONS WHO ARE BLIND
- How We Apply Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Under SSDI to Persons Who Are Blind
- Blind Work Expenses (BWE)
- Comparison of Monthly SSI Payment With BWE Versus IRWE
- Accommodations for Persons Who Are Blind or Visually-Impaired
ADDITIONAL HELP WITH HEALTH CARE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- Medicaid Buy-In for Working Persons with Disabilities
- Help with Medicare Part A Premiums
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
EXAMPLE OF CONCURRENT BENEFITS WITH EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS
- Summary of Example with Concurrent Benefits
DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS UPDATE
- Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND)
- Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE)
- Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (POD)
- Supported Employement Demonstration (SED)
- Current Events
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