Work Incentive Fact Sheets

The fact sheets listed below contain information about various state and federal work incentive programs for people with disabilities who are working, training for a career, or who may be beginning a job search. 

• ABLE Accounts
• Blind Work Expense (BWE)
• Expedited Reinstatement of Benefits (EXR)
• Extended Medicare Coverage
• Extended Period of Eligibility
• Family Self-Sufficiency Program
• How Your SSI Payment Changes with Earnings
• Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE) for SSDI
• Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE) for SSI
• M.E.D. Works 
• Overpayments to SSDI & SSI Beneficiaries
• Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS)
• Property Essential to Self-Support
• Section 1619b: SSI and Medicaid Coverage 
• Self-Employment and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
• Self-Employment and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
• Student Earned Income Exclusion
• Subsidies and Special Conditions
• Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA)
• Ticket to Work Program
• Trial Work Period (TWP)
  
  

  Additional Resources:

• Earned Income Tax Credit/Volunteer Income Tax Assistance 
• HUD Earned Income
• Individual Development Accounts (IDA)
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
• Social Security Red Book: A Guide to Work Incentives 
  
  

  Information for Students in Transition

  The following fact sheets provide information about eligibility for benefits, work incentives, health care, and more for high school students transitioning to community life. The fact sheets combine information from several of the fact sheets above to help students and their families and caregivers transition to adult services.
  
• Supplemental Security Income After Age 18
• Social Security Disability Insurance
• Working and Paying for Health Care
• More State and Federal Benefits