Learn How the Ticket to Work Program Can Work for You

Chapter 3 - Ready to Work

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Work Incentives Planning & Assistance (WIPA) projects

Working with a WIPA project can help you:

  • Decide whether the Ticket to Work program is right for you
  • Understand the potential benefits of employment as a person who receives disability benefits from Social Security, while dispelling the myths about working
  • Analyze how work and earnings may affect your Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), health care and other public benefits
  • Understand the services a State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency or an Employment Network (EN) may provide and how they might best fit with your needs

Choose another service provider:

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WIPA projects can be partners on your path to employment that help you determine whether work is right for you

and how work may affect your benefits. Once you begin working, WIPA projects can also provide information and support

to help you make a successful transition to work and financial independence. Working with a WIPA can help you:

Decide whether the Ticket to Work program is right for you. Understand the positive potential of employment

as a person who receives disability benefits from Social Security, while dispelling the myths about working.

Analyze how work and earnings may affect your Supplemental Security Income (SSI),

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), health care and other public benefits. Understand the services

a State VR agency or an Employment Network (EN) may provide and how they might best fit with your needs.

Working with a WIPA project is often the first step for beneficiaries who want to go to work.

Click on the EN, VR or PABSS icons to learn more about those service providers or

click the right arrow to learn how to find help.