Work Incentives

Are you receiving disability benefits?
Are you tired of being benefits dependent?
Are you a Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Client?
Do you know you are always better off working?
Do you know Social Security offers work incentives designed to test your ability to work?
Do you know you can continue to receive benefit payments even when you are working and earning money?
Do you know you can keep Medicaid coverage indefinitely after you begin to work and earn money?

Social Security offers work incentives to people who are receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Follow the links at the bottom of this page for thumbnail sketches of the Work Incentives that Social Security offers. If you have any questions PLEASE call the Homer office of the ILC at 907-235-7911 or 800-770-7911 and speak with either Joyanna or Jim. We can answer your specific questions. If e-mail is your thing, use Joyanna or Jim. You can also use our benefits analysis form before you call; doing that will help us to answer questions related to your unique benefit situation.

SSDI Incentives

SSI Incentives