Benefits
Employment
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Asset Development
100
Community-based organizations that receive grants from SSA to provide all Social Security and SSI disability beneficiaries with free access to work incentives planning and assistance.
What are Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) organizations?
100
Designed to provide a full range of assistance to job seekers at one location.
What are American Job Centers?
100
This program has been labeled as the most effective anti-poverty program set-up by the federal government.
What is the Earned Income Tax Credit?
100
According to FDIC, 80% of the population lack this.
What is basic financial education?
100
Something of value that is owned by an individual.
What is an asset?
200
Provides benefits to disabled or blind individuals who are "insured" by workers' contributions to the Social Security trust fund.
What is Social Security Disability Insurance?
200
This agency's mission is to help persons with disabilities obtain and maintain employment.
What is Vocational Rehabilitation?
200
A refundable tax credit that reduces or eliminates the taxes that low-income working individuals and families pay.
What is the Earned Income Tax Credit?
200
Something used as a way to pay for goods and services and to pay people for their work.
What is money?
200
A series of strategies that provide long term benefits and has the potential to help people with disabilities improve their economic status, expand opportunities for community participation, and impact positively the quality of life experience.
What is asset development?
300
Provides cash assistance payments to aged, blind, and disabled individuals who have limited income and resources.
What is Supplemental Security Income?
300
This website provides information on support that is available in your local community and shares success stories from individuals who have accessed the Ticket to Work program to successfully obtain employment.
What is www.choosework.net?
300
online software to complete taxes free for individuals who made $58,000 or less in 2013.
What is myfreetaxes.com?
300
An estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
What is a budget?
300
A matched savings account designed to help low income workers plan for and reach specific asset building goals.
What is an Individual Development Account?
400
An innovative program for individuals with disabilities who want to work that increases available choices when obtaining employment services, vocational rehabilitation services, and other support services an individual may need to get or keep a job.
What is Ticket to Work?
400
This website allows individuals to ask questions about workplace accommodations on the ADA and related legislation.
What is www.askjan.org?
400
This program generally offers free tax help to people who make $52,000 or less and need assistance in preparing their own tax returns.
What is VITA?
400
The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.
What is Credit?
400
This program allows you to set aside income and/or resources for a specified period of time so you can pursue a work goal.
What is Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS)?
500
An effort to do substantial work, in employment or self-employment that you stopped or reduced to below the SGA level after a short time (6 months or less) because of: -Your impairment or -Removal of special conditions related to your impairment essential to the further performance of your work.
What is Unsuccessful Work Attempt?
500
This Commission was created by Executive Order 11-161 to advance job and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in order to help those individuals achieve greater independence.
What is the Governor’s Commission on Jobs for Floridians with Disabilities?
500
This website provides a list of free tax preparation sites.
What is irs.gov? More Specific http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Free-Tax-Return-Preparation-for-You-by-Volunteers
500
Rule # 1 in Financial Education.
What is Pay Yourself First?
500
A program that encourages communities to help individuals and families who are receiving Housing Choice Vouchers as a rent subsidiary to set employment goals and advance their self-sufficiency.
What is the Family Self-Sufficiency Program?
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