WORKING Newsletters

• Medicare and Individuals with Disabilities:   PDF  (872 KB)  |   HTML  (55 KB)
• BOND Participants Can Work and Keep Some Social Security Benefits:   PDF  (1389 KB)  |   HTML  (75 KB)
• Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities (MBI-WPD):   PDF (713 KB)   |  TEXT  (34 KB)
• Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS):  PDF  (950 KB)  |  TEXT  (33 KB)
• Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) & Work:  PDF (797 KB)  |   TEXT (37 KB)
• Supplemental Security Income and Work:  PDF (1,214 KB)  |   TEXT (45 KB)
• Special SSDI and SSI Rules For Working Individuals
  With Statutory Blindness:  PDF (1,204 KB)   |  TEXT  (38 KB)
• Strategies for Financial Stability for Individuals with Disabilities   PDF  (1,108 KB)   |   HTML  (62 KB)

Policy to Practice Briefs

• Expedited Reinstatement of Social Security or SSDI Disability Benefits   PDF  (725 KB)  |   HTML  (385 KB)
• The Federal Earned Income Tax Credit   PDF  (582 KB)  |   HTML  (74 KB)
• Representative Payment & Return to Work Effort   PDF (592 KB)  |   HTML (89 KB)
• Work Incentives and Assistive Technology   PDF  (719 KB)  |   TEXT  (106 KB)
• Schools and the Ticket to Work:  PDF  (661 KB)  |  TEXT (57 KB)
• Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS):  PDF  (778 KB)  |  TEXT  (120 KB)
• The Medicaid Buy-In For Working People With Disabilities:  PDF (609 KB)  |   TEXT (57 KB)
• Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare And Work:  PDF (645 KB)  |   TEXT (62 KB)
• The "New" Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program:  PDF (779 KB)  |   TEXT (99 KB)
• Enhancing the Peer Support Model:  PDF  (592 KB)  |  TEXT  (61 KB)
• Overpayments and the Return to Work:  PDF (623 KB)  |  TEXT (60 KB)
• Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid and Work:  PDF (713 KB)  |   TEXT  (65 KB)

Demonstration Reports

• State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies Adopt Customized Wage & Self-Employment   PDF (43 KB)   |   HTML (4 KB)
• Customized Employment Through NYMWP Report on Demonstration Projects   PDF (385 KB)   |   TEXT (39 KB)
• Report on Demonstration Projects: PDF (391 KB)  |   TEXT (39 KB)
• Report on Peer Employment Support Model PDF (683 KB)  |   TEXT (147 KB)
• A 'Primer' on The StartUP New York 4-Phase Entrepreneurship Model: PDF (460 KB)  |  TEXT (23 KB)
• Employer Practice  - An Analysis of the Disability Is Diversity Training Session PDF  (630 KB)   |   HTML  (70 KB)
• Work Incentives Information Network  -  more...

  The Work Incentive Information Network (WIIN) is being built to create an informed and well educated network of professionals and peers throughout NYS who will be able to discuss and plan, in a meaningful and useful manner, work incentives and benefits planning for individuals with disabilities who are entering, or returning, to the work force. Accurate and customized information is critical to the decision to risk cash benefits and health care and begin the journey to independence through work. The goal of the WIIN is to ultimately increase the number of individuals with disabilities who choose work, reduce their dependence on public benefits, leave the roles completely or attain incomes above the poverty limit. Providing individuals with disabilities with information that will allow an educated, informed choice about work and providing assistance to take the "next step" is the goal of each benefits specialist.

  The Work Incentive Information Network (WIIN) is being built to create an informed and well educated network of professionals and peers throughout NYS who will be able to discuss and plan, in a meaningful and useful manner, work incentives and benefits planning for individuals with disabilities who are entering, or returning, to the work force. Accurate and customized information is critical to the decision to risk cash benefits and health care and begin the journey to independence through work. The goal of the WIIN is to ultimately increase the number of individuals with disabilities who choose work, reduce their dependence on public benefits, leave the roles completely or attain incomes above the poverty limit. Providing individuals with disabilities with information that will allow an educated, informed choice about work and providing assistance to take the "next step" is the goal of each benefits specialist.

  The WIIN is a statewide effort. Core training and WIIN seminars are presented at locations across the state to allow for building resources in all locations; both rural and urban. To date, the WIIN has added some 140 fully trained benefits planners and has provided basic training seminars to 280 information and referral personnel. As the WIIN continues to expand there will be a cadre of some 500 benefits planners and full state access for individuals with disabilities should be achieved.

  

  Based upon our "pyramid" model, individuals with disabilities who begin to question whether work is the right choice will receive basic information (level III) and, if necessary, referral "up the pyramid" for short term intervention (level II) and/or full benefits planning and follow up (level III) to support the individual's work goal.

  Currently benefits planning and information and referral services are located in the following areas of NYS. We continue to endeavor to make services available in every neighborhood in the state.

  For more Information Please contact:
  Raymond Cebula
  Director of Training & Technical Assistance
  Employment & Disability Institute
  ILR School
  Ithaca, NY 14853
  (617) 312-3261
  rac79@cornell.edu

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