ABLE Accounts in Rhode Island and Connecticut
This video explains how ABLE accounts allow a person receiving SSI and Medicaid to save. The explanation includes an overview of eligibility for ABLE accounts and how they work.
Videos
The Social Security Administration offers a variety of disability-related work incentives and support services to help people enter or return to the workforce. There is also a tool that can help you save money.
Below are brief, easy-to-understand videos that introduce key topics related to working while receiving benefits, including information for youth, SSI and SSDI recipients.
You’ll also find a video with tips for managing work and benefits, as well as one that explains how you can save money through an ABLE Account. Get the facts and learn that you can work with benefits!
Managing Benefits When Working in Rhode Island and Connecticut
This video provides six tips for managing benefits when working: (1) look at the whole financial picture when working; (2) report wages; (3) learn about work incentives; (4) organize benefit paperwork; (5) prepare for overpayments; and (6) set aside money for the future.
SSI and Youth Who Work
This video encourages youth who receive SSI to work. It provides two key reasons why it’s important to work: (1) you have more money when you work, which includes an explanation of the Student Earned Income Exclusion (SEIE) and the basic SSI calculation if the SEIE is used up, and (2) you gain experience that helps you decide what you want to do as an adult and to get better paying jobs in the future.
SSI and Work
This video provides encouragement by educating the viewer about three great things that happen for SSI beneficiaries when they work. The three key facts explained are: (1) you have more money by working; (2) you can keep SSI eligibility when working, even when earnings are high enough to reduce SSI payments to $0; and (3) you can keep Medicaid when working, even when earnings are high enough to reduce SSI payments to $0.
SSDI and Planning for Work in Rhode Island and Connecticut
This video encourages SSDI beneficiaries to make a plan for work and get expert help to determine how work may affect their SSDI benefits. It explain the three phases of SSDI work rules: Trial Work Period, Extended Period of Eligibility, and Post-EPE. The video also mentions work incentives that let a person earn more than SGA and maintain SSDI and Medicare.
SSDI Work Incentives for Rhode Island and Connecticut
This video explains the three phases of SSDI work rules: (1) Trial Work Period; (2) Extended Period of Eligibility; and (3) Post Extended Period of Eligibility. It provides details about two work incentives, Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE) and Subsidy, that can enable a person to keep SSDI even if gross earnings are above SGA. It also explains Expedited Reinstatement, a work incentive that enables a person whose SSDI has been terminated because of earnings to get SSDI back without having to reapply if earnings later fall below SGA or stop.