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Keeping Medicaid Coverage While Working - Section 1619(b)
After you return to work, your Medicaid coverage can continue, even if your earnings become too high for an SSI cash payment. However, there are several conditions that have to be met to keep Medicaid coverage after going back to work.
Social Security's Special Rules for Individuals Who Are Blind

Information on employment supports which are special rules that can help individuals who are blind or visually-impaired return to work while receiving disability benefits. Includes information about Blind Work Expenses (BWE) such as service animal expenses and transportation to and from work for people who receive SSI and Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE).

Guide to Employment Supports
Information from the Social Security Administration (SSA) on employment supports that enable people with disabilities to return to work, reduce their hours or stop working and still receive monthly cash benefits and/or health care.
Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS)

Information on PASS, a work incentive program for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries.

SSDI & SSI Employment Supports
Information on Social Security rules that make it possible for people with disabilities receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to work and still receive monthly payments and Medicare or Medicaid.
Social Security Work Incentives
Information on work incentives that can help individuals receiving Social Security disability benefits continue to receive monthly payments and keep their Medicare or Medicaid after they get a job or become self-employed.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Employment Supports

Information about SSI employment supports including the Earned Income Exclusion and the Student Earned Income Exclusion that allow people receiving disability benefits to work and still receive monthly payments and Medicare or Medicaid.

Using Social Security Work Incentives to Pay for Transportation

Information on how certain Social Security work incentives can be used to help offset the cost of transportation.

Using Work Incentives to Fund Micro Enterprises

This START-UP webcast provides information on using work incentives to fund micro enterprises, including using a Plan For Achieving Self-Support (PASS) as a small business funding source.

What Is A Work Incentive?

Information on work incentives - special rules that make it possible for people with disabilities receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to work and still receive monthly payments and Medicare or Medicaid.

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