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Benefits Information Network Project

Funded by: Indiana Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) and Vocational Rehabilitation Services. The purpose is to create a network between all the benefits counselors and providers to improve the capacity to use of federal and state work incentives.

Activities include:

  • Prepare and complete training curriculum for BIN training.
  • Train BIN personnel and evaluate BIN personnel knowledge and understanding of the programs.
  • Develop a list serv for ongoing information dissemination to BIN Personnel.
  • Provide ongoing support and information dissemination to BIN Personnel and Indiana work incentive coordinators on work incentives and community resources enhancing employment.


For more information about Indiana's Benefits Information Network, contact Becky Banks at the Center on Community Living and Careers, (812) 855-6508 or bebanks@indiana.edu

Informational Brochure (pdf format)

 


DISABILITY BENEFITS and WORK: Benefit Resources for Hoosiers with Disabilities
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/disabilitybenefitsandwork/default.htm


2010 Fact Sheets on State and Federal Work Incentives
  • Section 1619b: SSI and Medicaid Coverage
  • Blind Work Expense (BWE)
  • Extended Period of Eligibility (EPE)
  • Expedited Reinstatement of Benefits (EXR)
  • Extended Medicare Coverage
  • HUD: Earned Income Disregard
  • Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE) for SSDI
  • Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE) for SSI
  • Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS)
  • Property Essential to Self Support
  • Self-Employment and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Work Incentive
  • Self-Employment and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Work Incentive
  • Student Earned Income Exclusion
  • Subsidies or Special Conditions
  • Trial Work Period (TWP)
  • How Your SSI Payment Changes with Your Earnings

  • MED Works fact sheet from Indiana Medicaid


    • Social Security Red Book