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Find experts who can answer your questions about benefits, including how to apply, how getting a job can impact your benefits, and what you need to do to stay on benefits.

The offices you should contact depend on your situation and the benefits you get.

Benefits and Work Live Help

• Email a counselor at the Alaska Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Project.

Other Disability-Related Live Help

• Call an Aging and Disability Resource Center at 1-855-565-2017.
• Contact an Independent Living Center.

Social Security Disability Benefits: SSI and SSDI

• Call the Social Security Administration (SSA) at 1-800-772-1213 or 1-800-325-0778 (TTY) or go to your local Social Security office.

To understand how work affects SSI and SSDI, contact:

• The Ticket to Work Help Line at 1-866-968-7842 or 1-866-833-2967 (TTY).
• An Alaska Ticket to Work Employment Network.
• An Alaska Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) counselor by email.
• The Disability Law Center of Alaska at 1-800-478-1234.

Adult Public Assistance (APA), SNAP, and TANF

• Call or visit your local Division of Public Assistance (DPA) office.

Medicaid and the Working Disabled Medicaid Buy-In

• Call or visit your local Division of Public Assistance (DPA) office.
• Call the Alaska Medicaid Recipient Helpline at 1-800-780-9972.

Medicare

• Call Medicare at 1-800-633-4227 or 1-877-486-2048 (TTY).
• Call the Alaska Medicare Information Office at 1-800-478-6065, 1-907-269-3680, or 1-800-770-8973 (TTY).

Work Preparation

• Call or visit your local Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) office.
• Call or visit your Alaska Job Center.
• Call or visit your Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation office.

Housing

• Call the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation at 1-800-478-2432 or 1-907-338-6100 to learn about programs like Section 8 and public housing.

Other Helpful Disability Resources

• Call 2-1-1.
• Alaska Disability Determination Services at 1-907-777-8100.
• For legal help, contact the Disability Law Center of Alaska at 1-800-478-1234 or Alaska Legal Services.