HCS Week 52

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December 27, 2019

New Mexico’s Legal & Financial Weekly

Vol. 9.99 No. 52

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Social Security’s Ticket To Work Program: Celebrating 20 Years Of Career Development And Support

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ecember 17 marks the 20th anniversary of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act—legislation that established the Ticket to Work (Ticket) program and other incentives to increase access to employment for adults with disabilities who want to work. Since 1999, the Ticket program has helped over one million Social Security disability beneficiaries work for the first time or return to work and find their path to financial independence.

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Today, the Ticket program continues to serve people with disabilities ages 18 through 64 who receive SSI or SSDI. If you’re eligible, it can connect you with free employment services that help you prepare for, find and maintain employment. The program provides services such as career counseling, vocational rehabilitation, job development, placement and training from authorized providers (known as Employment Networks) and/ or your State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency.

If you go to work and your disability interferes with work later, you may be able to return to benefits without a new application. Because each person’s circumstances are different, you are encouraged to consult a Benefits Counselor—a professional equipped to help you understand how employment will affect your SSDI or SSI, healthcare and other public benefits.

This could be the year to find out what’s possible for you. Visit the Ticket website to learn from a score of program participants who improved If you are ready for work, their sense of control, selfdon’t let the fear of losing your benefits stand in the way. As long as you esteem, financial independence, social engagement and their options when continue to have a disability, you can explore work while maintaining access they found work with help through the Ticket program. The prospect of to some or all of your Social Security disability benefits, and Medicare entering the workforce may be daunting, but you don’t have to do it alone. and/or Medicaid coverage. Rules known as Work Incentives provide you with the support to enter, re-enter or stay in the workforce by protecting To learn more, call the Ticket to Work Help Line at 1-866-968-7842 or your eligibility for benefit payments and/or healthcare until you achieve 1-866-833-2967 (TTY) Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET or your employment goal. (Continued Medicaid coverage may also depend visit https://choosework.ssa.gov. on your state’s programs and other factors.) -(NAPSI)

Home Improvements For Safety

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esearch shows that most older adults want to live in their homes and communities for as long as possible. Most homes, however, were not built to support the mobility, sensory and cognitive changes that often accompany aging.

to turn for advice or assistance—or even what modifications they may need. That’s where the Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S. Administration for Community Living, comes in. It connects older adults and caregivers across the country to Area Agencies on Aging and other resources—that can help determine what needs to be done, how to find a Fortunately, older adults and caregivers can make simple updates such contractor to do it and look for ways to pay for it all—that can help ensure as clearing clutter from the floor, improving lighting and removing rugs their homes meet their evolving needs. to help prevent falls—all of which can make homes meet the changing mobility, sensory and cognitive needs of the older adults who live in them. To that end, the Eldercare locator created a brochure, “Modifying Your Other changes such as installing a stair lift or renovating a bathroom are Home for Healthy Aging.” For a free copy and further advice, call (800) more complex and require outside assistance. 677-1116 or visit the Eldercare Locator at eldercare.acl.gov. Many older adults who need to modify their homes don’t know where -(NAPSI)


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