SOCIAL SECURITY/PASS information
 Work incentives, location of WIPA grants, + more

    Social Security's Red Book on Work Incentives - what happens with      
SSI, SSDI, RSDI, Medicare, and Medicaid when you go to work

    Dan Scarbrough has been witing PASS's since the '80's - this is his web page, with a wealth of information, for the National PASS Network


ACTIVISTS

      ADAPT is where disability activism is happening.  As American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit, ADAPT got us on busses, trains, and airplanes.  As American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today,  they got us federal Money Follows the Person, and are still fighting for MiCASSA - legislation that would require every state's Medicaid to fund home and commnity based services.  They have two national actions a year.  Visit them at adapt.org.  ADAPT also has outstanding local chapters in Rochester, NY; and Topeka, KS.

      The National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) is our voice on
Capitol Hill. NCIL will keep you posted on national issues with action alerts
and a newsletter, and has a conference once a year that includes a march to the Capitol by hundreds of IL advocates, who then visit legislators from their states.  Your membership as an individual is $40 and suppoprts us politically.

       In 2006, Mark Boatman, who is quadriplegic and a vent user, left North Dakota, where he had his friends and family but not 24/7 home and
community based care, to Missoula, Montana, where he now lives with
another vent user and his wife, and gets 24/7 care.  Mark left 3 years of
imprisonment in a nursing home and fighting the state, to freedom and
friendship, and an active- and activist - life. Catch up with him on his blog at http://www.nodakwheeler.blogspot.com:80/