Most people with disabilities want to work, but worry they’ll lose cash and medical benefits they depend on for survival. Fear of losing benefits is the greatest obstacle to employment for people with disabilities. Believe it or not, people really CAN work and keep essential benefits, using special rules known as “work incentives”. Learn how work incentives can:
This workshop also explains how people (including transitioning youth) can get or keep Medicaid Waiver services while working. Finally, you’ll discover how to get benefits counseling – a service to help people use work incentives to protect their benefits. Practical exercises will illustrate how work incentives can benefit real people. Learn how the system works so you can, too!
Who Should Attend:
Trainer: Michael Dalto, the Work Incentives Project Director for the Maryland Department of Disabilities, trains and certifies benefits counselors – the specialists who help people with disabilities use work incentives - in Maryland. Michael has delivered presentations on work incentives to thousands of professionals, people with disabilities and family members since 1989.
A lunch break will be provided, but lunch will be on your own.