Benefits

If you are a student under the age of 22, the Student Income Exemption Program allows you to earn $ 1,290 monthly, with a yearly cumulative total of $ 5,200, without it affecting your SSI check at all.

If you are over 22, the Social Security Administration uses a formula, which deducts about half of your wages from your SSI cash grant while you are working. It will not affect your health or attendant care benefits.

The PASS (Plan to Achieve Self Support) program is another way students with extra income or resources can save for educational and employment goals and keeps all of their SSI and/or SSDI.

For more information:

• WORKSUPPORT
  www.worksupport.com/topics/ssw.asp
  A list of "acronyms" commonly used by the Social Security Administration (SSA). This list may be helpful when communicating with SSA in order to ensure clear communication between you and the SSA representative.
  
  
• Social Security Information
  • The Social Security Administration
    Provides a Resources Toolkit to explain the work incentives for SSDI and SSI beneficiaries. "Work incentives" are special rules making it possible for people with disabilities receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to work and still receive monthly payments and Medicare or Medicaid.
    
    
  • Work Incentive Improvement Act
    The Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (WIIA) - Recent legislation designed to remove barriers that require people with disabilities to choose between health care coverage and work.
    
    
  • Social Security Disability Legal Help
    www.social-security-disability.net/yahoo.html
    Having problems with claims to social security? Consult one of the attorneys before submitting a disability claim.