This program provides Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability beneficiaries with a ticket they may use to obtain vocational rehabilitation (VR) services, employment services and other support services from an employment network of their choice.

Under the Social Security Administration there are "Work Incentives" that have been created to make it possible for people with disabilities, receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security (SSI), to work and still receive monthly payments, Medicare or Medicaid. Social Service calls this "Work Incentives".

Most people with disabilities who work, will continue to receive at least 93 consecutive months of hospital and medical insurance.

SSDI Work Incentives

• Trial work period
• Extended period of eligibility
• Continuation of Medicare coverage
• Medicare for people with disabilities who work

SSI Work Incentives

• Blind work expenses
• Earned income exclusion
• Student earned income exclusion
• Plan for achieving self-support
• Special SSI payments for people who work
• Continued Medicaid eligibility
• Special benefits for people eligible under 1619 (a) or (b) who enter a medical treatment facility
• Reinstating eligibility without a new application

SSDI & SSI Work Incentives

• Impairment related work expenses
• Subsidies and special conditions
• Unincurred business expenses
• Unsuccessful work attempts
• Continued payments under a vocational rehabilitation program

CONTACT INFORMATION

Social Security Administration | 800-772-1213 | 800-325-0778 (TTY) | www.ssa.gov/work