Resources

Module #4

Using SSI Work Incentives to Create Economic Safety Nets and Pathways to Work

This toolkit will help vocational rehabilitation (VR) counselors understandand explain to youth and their families the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program’s range of work incentives that create a pathway toward work and an economic safety net in the event a work attempt is not sustained.

Social Security’s Red Book – A Guide to Work Incentives

https://www.ssa.gov/redbook/eng/ssdi-and-ssi-employments-supports.htm (provides summary of all key Social Security and SSI disability work incentives).

Social Security’s Spotlight Series

Links to SSI Spotlights, https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/links-to-spotlights.htm
Spotlight on Special SSI Rule for Blind People Who Work, https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-blind-work.htm.
Spotlight on Student Earned Income Exclusion, https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-student-earned-income.htm.
Spotlight for Continued Medicaid Eligibility for People Who Work: Section 1619(B), https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-medicaid.htm.