On April 29, 2015, we answered your disability-related questions on our Facebook page. Our guest experts helped us reply to a range of questions about the Ticket to Work program, Work Incentives and the path to financial independence through self-employment and/or working from home. Thank you to all who joined and we hope to see the rest of you next time!
If you missed the event, you can review all the questions and answers from the April 29 Facebook Q&A in this PDF transcript.
Below are acronyms used throughout the transcript:
• AARP - American Association of Retired Persons
• CEO - Chief Executive Officer
• CWIC - Community Work Incentives Coordinator
• EN - Employment Network
• GED - General Educational Development
• HUD - Housing and Urban Development
• NESE - Net Earnings from Self-Employment
• OVR - Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
• PASS - Plan to Achieve Self-Support
• PTSD - Posttraumatic stress disorder
• RN - Registered nurse
• SBDC - Small Business Development Center
• SNAP - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
• SSA - Social Security Administration
• SSDI - Social Security Disability Insurance
• SSI - Supplemental Security Income
• TTW - Ticket to Work
• VR - Vocational Rehabilitation
• WIPA - Work Incentives Planning & Assistance
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