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People on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) who go to work have more money to spend. They can also keep Medicaid coverage while working. This toolkit will help you understand how wages impact SSI. You will learn about the special tools, called work incentives, that let you keep more of your SSI when you work... This toolkit helps individuals with disabilities, family members of individuals with disabilities, and professionals who assist people with disabilities. Written by Debora Wagner, an instructor at the Work Incentive Support Center at Cornell University, the toolkit provides essential information, examples, and case studies. It also offers quizzes that help you interact with the material in a fun way, and summaries that provide just the most important facts... Help for people who receive Supplemental Security Income about employment's impact on SSI benefits, with info on work incentives and keeping Medicaid.

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