Customized Employment
Customized employment has become a recognized method of developing careers for people with significant barriers to employment.
Social Security Information
Employment Work Incentives
General Work Incentives Information:
The Social Security “Redbook” is a publication from the Social Security Administration that lists and explains all of the available ways for people to try work, expand work and become more interdependent, and have less of a danger of losing their Medical benefits.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/redbook/index.html
Specific SSI Work Incentives Information: including the Student Earned Income Exclusion
A listing of all of the work incentives available to people receiving SSI and Medicaid benefits that allow them to work, including Student Earned Income Exclusion.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/redbook/eng/ssi-only-employment-supports.htm
Social Security PASS Plan Information
Information concerning Plans to Achieve Self Support, their purpose, employment goals, what may be purchased and PASS Plan administration.
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