Michael.Walter@f39.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Walter) (01/10/90)
Index Number: 6181
hAS ANYONE OUT THERE USED THE WORK INTICENTIVE PROGRAM ?? which SSi
and SS provide for getting off the dole? I would be intrested in exchanging
information with you.
For those who do not know what this program is, ask your local Social
Security for a copy of there current publication on the work incentive
program. You may have to write the office in S.F. or the district office
nearest you. That is the main office,not the branch office. I ran across
this publication quite by accident. So do not expect the local office
to have it on there selfs. The Social security people keep the existance
of the work incentive a well hidden secret. It provides a way to save
up a portion or all of you ss check and let SSi make up the difference
between that amount and the maximum you are supose to recieve from
a combination of the two checks. Nice,Hu? The money can be used for
college, to return to work for yourself or to build up your reurves
for other needs which will help u to go back to work.
If this infomation is of any help,let me know. Call me at home,at 916
631 7174.
IF WE ALL WORK TOUGTHER, WE CAL GET OFF THE SOCIAL INSEURITY CHECK(SICK)
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Internet: Michael.Walter@f39.n203.z1.fidonet.orgReed.Hopkins@f7.n125.z1.fidonet.org (Reed Hopkins) (01/13/90)
Index Number: 6229
Hiya everybody! Couldn't believe my eyes when I logged on here after an information overload abscence and found an ABLED forum!! Yee Haw I'm home!
>> hAS ANYONE OUT THERE USED THE WORK INTICENTIVE PROGRAM ??
>> which SSDI provide for getting off the dole?i and SS
>> I would be intrested in exchanging information with you.
I'm currently using the Program For Acheiving Self Support to get
through a five year accounting program at Sonoma State University.
It has been an absolute Godsend for me. I live almost like a real
citizen because of it. It covers the cost of classroom related
expenses only, but that includes the cost of auto insurance and
maintenance because I need the car to get to and from school (the
classroom). It also covers the odd book and other things that
Vocational Rehabilitation doesn't cover (in CA the Voc Rehab has
been mis-managed into almost total ineffectiveness).
It has also bought me this terrific Macintosh, which allows me to
keep up with the writing I need to do, but which also allows me to
do stuff like this, even though it isn't classroom related. I got
so carried away with it that I could probably get a job as a Mac
consultant now, but don't tell anybody!
If you have an achievable goal, the PASS program allows you to set
aside SSDI money and/or earnings (any kind of income that would
normally be deducted) into a special account, in amounts determined
by a budget that you set at the beginning of the program. That
money isn't counted as Income when your SSI amount is figured, so
your SSI check rises by that much. I use it to shelter not only my
SSDI but also the substantial scholarship that I *earned* and that
would completely wipe out my SSI income twice a year if I had not
been able to put it into the PASS budget.
Hey hey hey, this is a great conference! Love ya all! (Elephant
stew)
-- Reed
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Internet: Reed.Hopkins@f7.n125.z1.fidonet.orgMichael.Walter@f39.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Walter) (01/17/90)
Index Number: 6281
Hi, U are right the SS program out here is just a facada for the public.
It makes them think that they are helping people in the system. But
it is killing its clients by fating them up and lulling them into believe-
ing there is no other way than to live on the SICK (the ssi check).
The PASS program is the best kept secret on the west coast! I was up
North and worked as a counsler. After inquiring of everyone in,out
and or the system, Not one person out of a few hundred knew of any
program which could help SS clients return either to college or become
self employed as this PASS program can do.
It was only by divine conquence(grin) that I fond a SSi printing with
the necessary infomation in it.
As u can see my main limitation is in the area of spelling (grin) I
am a adult with Learning Disabilities which prevent me from doing any
work or sport which requires eye-hand type work,but Rehab?(grin) put
me into electronics,big joke? So I was misable for a few years working
at max speed and getting no-ware.
For the last few years I have been wasting away, believing that there
was no way out of tis dependenicy on the government. This PASS program
has given me hope. I am returning to college and I soon will get my
B.S. degree in Social Services. Then I hope to be able to go back and
bring other people off Sick.
Please keep in touch and let me know how u are doing in college.
O,by the way,Spread the gospel of PASS around on the local BBS'S. So
others will be able to see the light and gain hope of enternal freedom
from the deadly cluches of this evil monster of SSI?.
Yours IN Hope
Michael J. Walter (mike)
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Internet: Michael.Walter@f39.n203.z1.fidonet.orgFloria.Antin@f304.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Floria Antin) (01/17/90)
Index Number: 6310 > Could you please tell us more about PASS, like whether this is > strictly a California program or a fed one? I haven't heard of it > until recently (and on this net!). Those poor in Texas such as Yerz I believe it is a Federal program. Your local Social Security office should be able to tell you about it. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!109!304!Floria.Antin Internet: Floria.Antin@f304.n109.z1.fidonet.org