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: Four Ways Benefits Support Work covers the key ways that benefits programs support beneficiaries who start earning money.
• 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, you can speak to someone at 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.