Guest Blog by the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work Team
Are you a Social Security disability beneficiary (SSI/SSDI), age 18 through 64, who wants to work? The Ticket to Work program may be right for you! It provides choices in support services that help you prepare for, find and maintain work. The goal of the program is for you to work towards and achieve a better self-supporting future!
If you are interested in the Ticket to Work program, you should get to know our Find Help tool. With this tool, you can connect with organizations that can help you achieve your work goals.
With the Find Help tool you can:
- Find service providers that serve your state or ZIP code. These include Employment Networks (ENs) and Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies (VRs)
- Refine search by disabilities served, services provided or languages spoken
- Print condensed or detailed results lists or export to a file
- View EN Report Cards
EN Report Cards can help you find an EN that best meets your needs. They are updated yearly.
EN Report Cards include:
- Program services offered
- Years of experience
- Size of staff
- Performance in assisting clients to find and keep employment
- Client satisfaction data (if available)
In the past six months, more than 180,000 people have accessed the easy to use Find Help tool. Discover what it can do for you! Check out the Find Help tool today.
To learn more about how Ticket to Work and Work Incentives can work for you or someone you know, please visit www.socialsecurity.gov/work, email us at support@chooseworkttw.net or call the Ticket to Work Help Line at 1-866-968-7842 (V) or 1-866-833-2967 (TTY/TDD).
I don’t even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not recognize who you are, however certainly you are going to a famous blogger, in case you are not already. Cheers!
By the way, Ticket to Work, it didn’t help. It’s 60-70 miles from me, but yet they don’t have it in my area and they expect me to go – no.
I’ve been searching everywhere for information on this. Cheers!
I feel your pain being disabled myself, after a bad accident at work. I worked for 35 years, since I was 15. I had the same issues you are having, denied, denied, etc., even after one of the best surgeons for orthopedics pulled me aside and told me, while it’s against the law for employers to discriminate, no one will hire you, also on an employment application if you lie or fail to list the disability, it’s fraud, my atty told me. I wanted to go back to my job in management of 18 years if I was able. I was told by both the company and both my docs that was not possible, so then it was a life or death struggle to get my money from SS disability. After all, it’s my money I paid in, not something given to me by anyone, it’s supposed to be there for people like me and you, for when things like this happen in life. But from what I understand, politicians through the years have raided the SSI funds when there was plenty of income in SSI funds, spent that money on whatever they saw fit, when it was not theirs to spend in the first place. Had that money been left alone, it would have compounded over time, there would have been plenty of money, there is no bailing out SSI, they just need to give back the money the gov’t has stolen over the years. with the investment interest it would have earned, then they could stop trying to deny everyone who does not get an atty. They take from us to provide for others, then tell us we’re all denied. Get it now, you have to get an atty to get anywhere with them, the atty will take your case for free and get his money from SSI, I believe is how it works. Good luck. I wish the best for you and the rest of the denied disabled!!
Hello, I come across your information and read it, but do not know where to start. I am a 68 year old male with a BS in Social Sciences and a partial completion on an MA in Counseling Psychology. I am anxious to find paid professional employment. I have been diagnosed with ADD, a math disorder, Depression and a non verbal learning disability. Are there any resources that you can refer me to that would guarantee me paid professional employment? Can you also show me how I could get started with the Ticket to Work Program in order to find paid professional employment as soon as possible? I am in the Boston area but am open to relocation, so please call or email me any time. I am anxious to find paid professional employment anywhere and don’t care how low the salary is.
I would like to know if there are any work from home jobs, as well. I have published over 70 online articles related to early childhood education, families and children, and families. Unfortunately they only pay in revenue sharing which only amounts to less than $2,000 per year as there are no websites that pay a regular fee. I have excellent computer skills, some technical computer skills, excellent verbal and writing skills, etc. This would work very well for me with my disabilities. My social security disability from my deceased husband’s social security is only $816 per month because I am only 57. I have a computer, a variety of software, a printer/scanner/copier, and other tools.
I am disabled and interested in a ticket to work. I do not make enough from my disability check to make ends meet and pay my bills. I need an additional income to assist in off-setting my debt problems. I can not stand for a long periods of time as well as sit for a long periods of time, and will need some kind of work at home type of job. How do I get a work ticket to be able to do some type of part-time work?
I haven’t used the ticket to work yet. A person like myself with a disability, I’m looking forward to the use of my ticket. I do hope other use their tickets as well.
I KNOW I should have expected this. Everyone told me you are denied the 1st time. I was. I filed the appeal myself after the 1st denial, explained I could have been getting SSI since the brain tumor / seizures occurred 14 years ago, but I didn’t file as I had pre-seizure warning signs, could still drive & LOVE working. Even 2 jobs when we didn’t need the money. I’m that hyper & productive. Now that I no longer have my pre-seizure warning, I can’t even drive, or use the tractor, or cook when alone. So I filed for the SS that I’ve paid into. I got this 2nd denial to my appeal in the mail tonight. (PS. on the appeal, every other question they asked was “Do you have an attorney?”) There’s the 1st sign (mind you I’ve paid into the SS for over 30+ years. Money that the gov’t has already spent.) But the verbiage in the appeal denial is SO effin asinine, my head is about to effin explode. Here’s the exact verbiage of the appeal denial: “YOU STATE THAT YOU ARE DISABLED DUE TO SEIZURES. THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT YOU DO HAVE THESE RESTRICTIONS WHICH PREVENT YOU FROM PERFORMING YOUR PAST WORK. HOWEVER RESTRICTIONS DO NOT PRECLUDE YOU FROM PERFORMING THE TYPE OF WORK AS IT IS NORMALLY PERFORMED IN THE NATIONAL ECONOMY.” Seriously, the national economy – as it is now?? The one that the gov’t. has tanked, that a large group of able bodied – non-seizure people can’t even work in? OMG, I am so mad I can’t even re-read this anymore. All I can say is they were so worried about me having an attorney. Well, I WILL have an attorney by 10 AM tomorrow. But that is something they shouldn’t be so worried about. What they should be concerned about is the Cajun tornado that even most of the USA has never viewed before. EVER. HOW DARE THEY? If I had never worked and was having babies out the wazoo, I’d be getting checks out of my ears, each time it would increase, the more babies, the more money. They aren’t even taking into consideration all the money Hubby and I earned for them in taxes on all the salary, high earning taxed dollars, taxes on items bought, taxes on our successful business. Have never been ON the system & now that we need some of our PAID money back for an out of control medical DISABILITY, they have the nads to state that I should be able to function with seizures in the NATIONAL ECONOMY that doesn’t exist because they tanked it?? They shouldn’t be afraid of me having an attorney, they should be afraid of how far and wide I will publicize this. I will devote EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF EVERY SINGLE moment that I will have on this. I’m so stunned by this that I can’t even breathe properly. To them I should have applied at the first diagnosis. But no, I worked through it when I had warning signs. Now I know what I’m up against. And they will soon be finding out what/who they are up against. I’m tired of people being cattle and following these self-serving, greedy politicos that haven’t even met me yet. But they will. And they don’t know my stamina. So pissed I can’t see straight. I’m not going to mention this to Hubby as he is stressed enough. We are losing our farm due to these greedy bastards and their friends tanking our economy and costing us our businesses. Since we are moving into a tee-niney house, I’ll have nothing but time. I will not be cattle, as they are not leading. No threats here on my part. Only promises. American will be run by Americans, of the people, by the people, for the people. I will be sure to bring that back into my world. Not for, by and of the politicians lining their pockets and those of their cronies. I may have uncontrollable seizures, but I do have time as I am UN-HIRE-ABLE in what they refer to as THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. God forgive me for my words, thoughts and anger. But I’ve had enough. I will no longer tolerate this Governmental BS. I begin tomorrow, not with violence but with an anger and an unstoppable voice.