SSDI
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) provides cash benefits to people who are blind or have a disability. This program is available to people who have worked and paid Social Security taxes for a long enough period of time. SSDI may be received by the worker, the worker's widow or widower, a surviving divorced spouse, or the worker's child with a disability.
SSI
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) offers a monthly cash benefit to people who are older, blind, or have a disability; and have limited work history, income, and resources.
Medicaid for the Employed Disabled
Medicaid for the Employed Disabled was specifically created so that people would not have to choose between working and receiving health care or support programs. Far from the poverty programs of the past, this program encourages success. The income and asset limits for Medicaid for the Employed Disabled are high enough to make work a real possibility.
This is confusing . . . and I receive other benefits too.
It is confusing, and confusing enough to make you think that working is too risky. But there are people knowledgeable about the entire benefits picture who can look at your situation in detail and give you the information you need. Go to Find a Benefits Specialist for help.
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