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You and Your Benefits
Do you have questions about earning money and need help or information about managing your SSI, SSDI, or Medi-Cal benefits?
HireAble is able to offer individualized planning as well as group trainings on how earning income may impact your benefits. Some of the questions we can help you answer include:
How does or will earning money impact your benefits?
What can you do to be prepared?
What basics do you need to know to plan?
Why is earning money almost always a good idea?
How does earning money impact your Medi-Cal benefits?
How can you keep your Medi-Cal benefits?
What other medical benefit options are there for people who earn money?
How to manage your earning information.
How and what to report to manage your benefits.
Setting up and maintaining your recording keeping.
HireAble is now a vendor of Regional Center of the East Bay and our Vendor Number is HB1247. You will need a purchase of service from your RCEB Case Manager to access our services. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at donna@hireable.org or (510)375-0680 if you have any questions or need additional information.
Planning for the Transition to Adulthood for Individuals with Disabilities: Introducing Connections California
The California Department of Education, Department of Rehabilitation, and Department of Developmental Services are pleased to share the Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) Roadmap for Consumers. The roadmap is designed to assist individuals with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) and their families navigate the service delivery systems of the three departments and locate available employment resources.
The roadmap provides CIE information by the following age groups:
12–15 years old
16–17 years old
18–21 years old
22 years old and above
The CIE Roadmap for Consumers can be accessed through the following link: Competitive Integrated Employment. For more CIE Blueprint resources, please visit the CIE Toolkit at the California Health and Human Services Agency’s web page: CIE Toolkit. Organizations, businesses, and departments are encouraged to share this resource with the individuals with ID/DD and the families they work with.
If you have any questions regarding this subject, please contact the CIE Blueprint Interagency Leadership Workgroup by email at CaliforniaCIE@dor.ca.gov.
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