VR OVERVIEW OF WORK INCENTIVES
AGENDA AND OBJECTIVES
AGENDA
Coffee, juice, pop, donuts/rolls will be available each day at 8:30 am.
Morning #1 - 9 am to 10:15 am
Morning #2 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am
Lunch - 11:45 am to 1:15 pm
Afternoon #1 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm
Afternoon #2 - 2:45 pm to 4 pm
Morning 1
Why should VR care about SSI, SSDI, Medicare, and Medicaid?
Why should VR clients use PASS’s?
SSI and SSDI; The two Social Security disability programs
Workmen’s Comp and private disability insurance
Medicare and Medicaid
Return to work issues
Morning 2
Work incentives
Subsidies
IRWE’s and BWE’s
PASS
Ticket to Work/Work Incentives Improvement Act
Medicaid Buy-in
Afternoon 1
Record keeping for clients
What it means to a client to have a PASS
Afternoon 2
Q & A, Open Discussion, and/or
Examples of clients needing PASS and related services
OBJECTIVES
Trainees should gain an understanding of the cash benefits and health
care programs that serve – and limit- their clients
Trainees should become aware of how work affects their clients’ cash
benefits and health care
Trainees should gain a knowledge of resources available to their clients to
enable them to transition smoothly from dependence on government programs
to self-sufficiency
Trainees should be able to increase successful case closuires