Next Steps

Use DB101’s School and Work Estimator to get a sense of how work could impact your child’s benefits.

For more about these and other ways benefits support work, read these DB101 articles:

• Parent Focus: Turning 18 looks at how your child's benefits might change at age 18.
• Benefits for Young People has details about many different benefits and how rules change as your child gets older.
• Supplemental Security Income covers SSI’s rules in detail.
• Income-Based Medicaid describes a health benefit that covers people with and without disabilities.
• APA-Related Medicaid explains another way people with disabilities may qualify for Medicaid coverage.
• Working Disabled Medicaid Buy-In discusses a program for people 18 or older who have disabilities and work.

If you're currently on SSI, SSDI, or CDB benefits, and you're looking for a job, a trained benefits planner can help you avoid complications when you are working on a job plan for your future.

For questions or guidance specific to your situation:

• Email a counselor at the Alaska Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Project, or
• Call the Ticket to Work Help Line at 1-866-968-7842 or 1-866-833-2967 (TTY) Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST.

View DB101's full list of experts who can help you understand different benefits.