Benefits Counseling & Ticket to Work
Benefits Counseling & Ticket to Work
Benefits Counseling
Benefits Counseling Services are provided by a certified Benefits Counselors/Work Incentive Practitioner.
The Benefits Counselor can help beneficiaries understand how working will affect their federal and state benefits, including but not limited to:
- SSDI and SSI
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Food Stamps
- Medicare and Medicaid, other healthcare benefits
- Housing Assistance
A Benefits Counselor can explain how earnings from employment will affect a beneficiary’s Social Security benefits. The counselor will also explain the importance of reporting your wages within a timely manner to Social Security to help avoid receiving an overpayment.
Social Security Work Incentives
Social Security Work Incentives can also be utilized to help beneficiaries transition into an employment situation without immediately losing their benefits.
Some examples of Work Incentives can include:
- Trial Work Period (TWP)
- Extended Medicare
- Medicaid 1619(b)
- Impairment Related Work Expense (IRWE)
- Plan to Achieving Self-Support (PASS)
- Ticket to Work
Abilities of Northwest Jersey is proud to share that we are on track to provide Benefits Counseling with a certified WIP (Work Incentive Practitioner).
Our Benefits Counselor will have completed a certified program offered through Cornell University and will be credentialed to provide a qualify service.
For more information email dcoughlin@abilitiesnw.com or call (908)689-7460
Ticket to Work
Ticket to Work is a free employment service program developed by the Social Security Administration in 1999.
Ticket to Work connects you with free employment services to help you decide if working is right for you, prepare you for employment, and maintain success while you are working.
With TTW, you will receive services such as career counseling, vocational rehabilitation, and job placement and training from authorized Ticket to Work service providers, such as Employment Networks (EN) or your State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency.
Affiliate Partner of The Choice Group
Abilities is an affiliate partner of The Choice Group, an approved Employment Network, and is able to accept tickets and offer this program to individuals who receive Social Security disability benefits and are interested in obtaining or advancing employment.
The program provides services to help beneficiaries (ages 18 – 64) achieve new levels of independence and self-sufficiency through stable employment.
As an agency, we will be able to help ticket holders with:
- Career Planning
- Personalized Job Coaching
- Job Follow-Along
- Resume Preparation
- Job Search
- Community Resources
- Benefits Education and Counseling
