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Other Considerations for SSI Recipients:

  • If you receive other state or federal assistance, you will need to understand the impact of self-employment on these benefits and entitlements also. A Benefits Counselor from Indiana Works can help you understand these issues.

  • The Small Business Administration can offer valuable advice to you regarding your business venture, finance and accounting procedures and other important issues that will help you in making your self employment successful. For more information on Indiana's Small Business Administration, you can visit their website: Indiana’s Small Business Administration.

Many tools are resources are available for self-employment for people with disabilities. Below are some important sources for information:

Indiana Department of Workforce Development

Indiana Office of Vocational Rehabilitation

Griffin- Hammis information on self-employment for people with disabilities

SCORE: Counselors to America’s Small Business

Social Security Administration

U.S. Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy

 

 

The Disability Benefits and Work website was funded by the Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (CFDA # 93.768)

This site is intended for informational purposes only. Individual situations vary widely and must be evaluated on an individual basis by Division of Family Resources eligibility caseworkers, or Social Security Claims Representatives and/or Indiana Works-Community Works Incentive Coordinators. Links from this site are provided to help people research various topics and do not constitute endorsements by the State of Indiana or its partners.