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<h1 class="style1 fs4">Work Incentive Policies &amp; Resources</h1>
<p>We manage two disability programs that provide benefits based on disability or blindness:&nbsp; the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.&nbsp; Work incentives are special rules that enable people receiving SSDI or SSI to work and still receive monthly payments and Medicare or Medicaid.&nbsp; </p>
<p><strong>Social Security Disability Insurance Program (SSDI)</strong></p>
<p>The SSDI program provides benefits to people who have developed a disability or who are blind and who are &ldquo;insured&rdquo; by workers&rsquo; contributions to the Social Security trust fund. These contributions are based on your earnings (or those of your spouse or parents) as required by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). Title II of the Social Security Act authorizes SSDI benefits. Your dependents may also be eligible for benefits from your earnings record.</p>
<p><strong>Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI)</strong></p>
<p>The SSI program makes cash payments to people who are aged, blind, or have developed a disability (including children) and who have limited income and resources. The federal government funds SSI from general tax revenues. Many states pay a supplemental benefit to people in addition to the federal payments. Some of these states have arrangements with us to combine their supplemental payment with the federal SSI payment into 1 monthly check. Other states manage their own programs and make their payments separately. Title XVI of the Social Security Act authorizes SSI benefits.</p>
<p><em>Note: To get SSI, you must live in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or the Northern Mariana Islands and be a U.S. citizen or national. People who live in American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands cannot receive SSI.</em></p>
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<p>We deduct the cost of certain impairment-related expenses that you need in order to work from your earnings when we decide if you are performing substantial work. Examples of impairment-related expenses are things such as a wheelchair, certain transportation costs and specialized work-related equipment.</p>
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<p>Refers to support you receive on the job which could result in your receiving more pay than the actual value of the services you performed.&nbsp; We deduct the value of subsidies and special conditions from your earnings when we decide whether you are working at the SGA level. </p>
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<p>Refers to self-employment business support that someone provides to you at no cost. In deciding whether you are working at the SGA level, we deduct unincurred business expenses from your net earnings from self-employment. </p>
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<p>For an item or service to qualify as an unincurred business expense it must be an item or service that the IRS would allow as a legitimate business expense if you had paid for it; and someone other than you must have paid for it.</p>
<p>One way to identify an unincurred business expense is that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does not allow you to deduct the cost for income tax purposes because someone gave you the item or services.</p>
<p>For <strong>SSI </strong>we do not deduct unincurred business expenses from earnings when we figure your SSI payment amount.</p>
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<p>An effort by a disabled individual to engage in substantial work that either stopped or resulted in earnings below the Substantial Gainful Activity level after 6 months or less due to the individual's disabling condition, or the elimination of the provision of special services or assistance the individual needed in order to work.</p>
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<p>If your benefits ended because you worked and had earnings, you can request that your benefits start again without having to complete a new application. While we determine whether you can get benefits again, we can give you provisional (temporary) benefits for up to 6 months.</p>
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<p>If you medically recover and no longer meet SSA's definition of disability, your monthly payments can continue if you are actively participating in an approved VR program that is expected to help you become self-supporting. Your monthly SSDI and/or SSI Payments can continue until you complete the program.</p>
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<p>Allows you to use your income and/or things you own to reach a work goal. For example, you can set aside money to go back to school, or to get specialized training for a job or to start a business. Your goal should be a job that allows you to earn enough to reduce or eliminate your need for benefits provided under the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income programs. We don't count the money or resources you set aside under an approved PASS when we decide your initial or continuing eligibility for SSI. Having a PASS may help you qualify for SSI or may increase the amount of your SSI payment.</p>
<p>For more information, select <a href="wi/pass.htm">Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS)</a> and <a href="wi/passcadre.htm">Location of PASS Cadres</a>.</p>
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<p>Allows you to test your ability to work for at least 9 months. During your trial work period, you will receive your full disability benefit regardless of how much you earn as long as your work activity has been reported and you continue to have a disabling impairment. The 9 months does not need to be consecutive, and your trial work period will last until you accumulate 9 months within a rolling 60-month period. Certain other rules apply.</p>
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<p>If your disability benefits stop after successfully completing the trial work period because you worked at the substantial gainful activity (SGA) level, we can automatically reinstate your benefits without a new application for any months in which your earnings drop below the SGA level. This reinstatement period lasts for 36 consecutive months following the end of the trial work period. You must continue to have a disabling impairment in addition to having earnings below the SGA level for that month.</p>
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<p>Most persons with disabilities who work will continue to receive at least 93 consecutive months of Hospital (Part A); Supplemental Medical Insurance (Part B), if enrolled; and Prescription Drug coverage (Part D), if enrolled, after the 9-month Trial Work Period. You do not pay a premium for Part A. Although cash benefits may cease due to work, you have the assurance of continued health insurance. (93 months is 7 years and 9 months.)</p>
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<p>After premium-free Medicare coverage ends due to work, some persons who have returned to work may buy continued Medicare coverage, as long as they remain medically disabled. Some persons with low incomes and limited resources may be eligible for state assistance with these costs under various Medicare Savings Programs. Your state Health and Human Services agency makes the determination about whether you qualify for this help.</p>
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<p>For more information, select <a href="wi/cdrprotection.htm">Protection From Medical Continuing Disability Reviews</a>.</p>
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<p>If you are under age 22 and regularly attending school, we do not count up to $1,870 of earned income per month when we figure your SSI payment amount. The maximum yearly exclusion is $7,550. These amounts are for the year 2019; they may be adjusted each year based on the cost-of-living.</p>
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<p>Earned income that a blind individual uses to meet the expenses of working does not count when we determine SSI eligibility and payment amount. The expenses do not need to be related to blindness and include earned income used to pay income taxes, meals consumed during work hours, transportation costs or guide dog expenses.</p>
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<p>Your Medicaid coverage can continue even if your earnings along with your other income become too high for an SSI cash payment. In addition to the qualification requirements for Section 1619(a) below, you must need Medicaid in order to work and meet certain income restrictions.</p>
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<p>Section 1619(a) of the Supplemental Security law permits people to continue to receive an SSI payment while they work. Under Section 1619(b), you may continue to be eligible for Medicaid coverage. If a beneficiary is eligible under section 1619, they can receive an SSI cash benefit for up to 2 months while in a Medicaid facility or a public medical or psychiatric facility.</p>
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<p><strong>Work Incentive Resources</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://ssa.gov/redbook/">Red Book</a> – Guide to Work Incentives.<br>
<a href="https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/sga.html" title="Go to 2003 SGA Amounts for the Blind">SGA Amounts for the Blind and Non-Blind</a> <br>
<a href="documents/BPQY_Handbook.pdf">BPQY Handbook</a><br />
<a href="wi/awic.htm">Regional AWICs</a> - Area Work Incentive Coordinators (AWICs) are Social Security employees who specialize in Work Incentives and employment support programs.&nbsp; Choose your region&rsquo;s website to find your local AWIC.</p>
<p><strong>Medicare Resources</strong></p>
<p><a href="wi/medicare.htm">Medicare Information</a> <br>
<a href="wi/extended.htm">Q&amp;As on Extended Medicare</a> <br>
<a href="wi/qdwi.htm">Qualified Disabled Working Individuals</a></p>
<p><strong>Medicaid Resources</strong></p>
<p><a href="wi/medicaid.htm">Medicaid Information</a> <br>
<a href="wi/1619b.htm">Continued Medicaid Eligibility (Section 1619(B))</a> <br>
<a href="wi/1619b.htm#threshold">SSI State Threshold Amounts</a>&nbsp;- Information tables that provide the earnings amounts that replace SSI and Medicaid benefits.</p>
<p><strong>Other Policy Resources</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.ssa.gov/regulations/index.htm">Program Rules</a></p>
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