Your Social Security Benefits And Work How Social Work Incentives Can Help You With Getting And Keeping a Job AND Not Loose your Benefits

Do You Know: That You Can Earn Money & Keep All or Most of Your SSI Check? Social Security lets you make up to $85 per month before you loose any $ from your check If you make more than $85 per month, you only loose $1 for every $2 that you make from your SSI check

Example #1 You earn $85: You get $674 in your SSI check You earn $100: You get $ in your SSI check You earn $300: You get $ in your SSI check The more money you earn, the more money you have!

In fact, you could make too much to get an SSI check ($1,429 in one month), and still get your Medicaid benefits It’s a rule called 1619(b) You Can Make A lot of $ Without Loosing Your Medicaid

Are You in School and Want to Make $? You need to know about Student Earned Income Exclusion You can make $1,640 per month, up to $6,600 per year without any loss of SSI $ for 2009 and Up to age 22 and in school or training program

What is Property Essential to Self Support (PESS)? SSA does not count property that you use in a trade or business (e.g., inventory) or use for work as an employee (e.g., tools or equipment). Other use of the items does not matter (Work World). What you own to make $ does not count as “resources” for SSI eligibility ($2,000 for single person, $3,000 for a couple)

What’s an Impairment Related Work Expense? Any medical expense that you or your parents are paying for out of your own pocket that helps you work may be deducted directly from you pay This will raise the amount you get in your SSI check when you are working

What’s a PASS Plan? Social Security can help you pay for transportation to and from work, tools or equipment to take to work (including computers), or to start your own business. All you need to be doing is losing $ from your SSI check because of income

What’s a PASS Plan? Must have an identifiable work goal or activities related to establishing a work goal Must be written Must show a plan to achieve the employment goal or identified milestones To get a PASS plan form from SSA:

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