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Promoting Choice, Self-determination and Total Participation

Serving the Mid-Hudson Region Since 1987

(funded by the Social Security Agency (SSA)

THINKING OF GOING TO WORK?

If you receive disability benefits from the Social Security Administration, and are interested in working or learning more about how working would affect your benefits, you can get help from a community organization known as a Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA) project.

What is a WIPA?

• A WIPA is one of 104 local organizations that has arranged with Social Security to provide information and planning services about work and work incentives to Social Security and SSI disability beneficiaries. WIPA services are available in every State and Territory.

Who is eligible for WIPA services?

• All Social Security and SSI disability beneficiaries age 14 and over are eligible for WIPA services.
• You do not have to be working, or even have decided to work, to get WIPA services.

What can a WIPA do for me?

• Answer your questions about how part-time, full-time, or seasonal work would affect your individual disability benefits and other benefits you may receive from Federal, State, and local programs.
• Answer your questions about how work would affect your health care.
• Answer your questions about SSA work incentives and work incentives of other programs.
• Discuss your individual employment goals, including possible barriers and the resources or services you would need to overcome any barriers. A WIPA can also help you find those resources and services.
• Help you plan how to use work incentives or other benefits for a successful return to work.
• Help you work with your local Social Security office to put in place the work incentives that you need.
• Help you use your Ticket to Work and find and Employment Network that is right for you.

For More Information on SSA benefit and question Click HERE

 

Are you wondering how working will impact you SSDI or SSI benefits...

 

Are you receiving SSDI or SSI benefits, working now, or thinking about returning to work? Independent Living, Inc. can assist you in preparing a work plan so that you can go to work, keep your benefits, and continue receiving Medicare or Medicaid. 

Questions you may have...

• HOW CAN I WORK AND KEEP MY BENEFITS?
• WHAT ARE WORK INCENTIVES?
• DO SSDI AND SSI WORK INCENTIVES DIFFER?
• IS SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCLUDED?
• HOW LONG WILL MY SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS BE PROTECTED?
• WILL MY MEDICARE OR MEDICAID BE PROTECTED?

CALL (845) 913-7062 Ext 306

For More Information on SSA benefit and question Click HERE

 

Together we can: 

1) Explore work incentives that could increase your income.

2) Determine how earning money will effect your benefits.

3) Create a "benefits plan."

“Dependency increases the costs of entitlements, lowers our gross national product, and reduces revenue to the Federal Government...People with disabilities want to work...to be productive, self-supporting and taxpaying participants in society.”

-Tony Coelho– Chairman, PCEPD

For More Information on SSA benefit and question Click HERE

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10095.html#part8

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