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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits are critical to providing necessary cash assistance for low-income older adults and people with disabilities to pay for housing, food, health care, transportation, and other essentials.
The PABSS Program is a federally funded initiative providing advocacy and support services to Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities, assisting them in addressing return-to-work issues and navigating employment-related benefits while safeguarding their health coverage.
This pub tells you about representative payees. Representative payees help you budget and spend your Social Security payments. The pub tells you what they do. The pub tells you who decides you need one. It tells you what to do if they are misusing your money.
This publication explains how to report your wages when you get Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and why reporting your wages is necessary to avoid losing your SSI when you work.
This is one of the most frequently asked questions by a SSDI beneficiary who wants to work. The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides employment support/work incentive programs that can be used to assist in your work efforts.
This pub tells you about “public benefits” for people with disabilities. The pub tells you about Social Security, Medi-Cal, and Medi-Cal for children. It also tells you about IHSS, general assistance, food stamps, and CalWORKs. It tells you what to do if you need help getting them.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal needs-based benefit for eligible disabled, blind, or aged people (65 or older) administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA). This publication will cover all child SSI eligibility criteria except disability.
This fact sheet provides information about Supplemental Security Income (SSI) overpayments: what they are, what can cause them, who is responsible for them, and what your options are if you have an SSI overpayment. This fact sheet does not address overpayments of other kinds of Social Security benefits, such as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
This pub tells you about SSI rules when you turn age 18. If you had SSI before age 18, you have to have your eligibility for SSI decided again. SSI rules are different for people over the age of 18. This pub also tells you where to get help.