Next Steps

Use DB101’s School and Work Estimator to get a sense of how work could impact your child’s benefits.

To learn more about these and other ways benefits support work, read DB101’s articles about:

• Parent Focus: Four Ways Benefits Support Work, which covers the key ways that benefits programs support beneficiaries who start earning money.
• Benefits for Young People, which has details about many different benefits and how rules change as your child gets older.
• Supplemental Security Income, which covers SSI’s rules in detail.
• Income-Based NC Medicaid, which explains how people with and without disabilities can get NC Medicaid.
• Disability-Based NC Medicaid, which explains another way that people with disabilities may qualify for NC Medicaid coverage.
• Building Your Assets and Wealth, an introduction to asset-building strategies.

North Carolina's Employment and Independence for People with Disabilities (EIPD), formerly called the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS or VR), helps people with disabilities prepare for and find work. Whether you're looking to enter the workforce for the first time, return to work, or enter a new line of work, a counselor can work with you to figure out which services you need and develop a plan to help you reach your work goals.

Call or visit the Employment and Independence for People with Disabilities (EIPD) office near you.

Social Security’s Ticket to Work Program helps people with disabilities who get Social Security benefits re-enter the workforce and become more independent. The Ticket to Work Program offers free access to employment-related services, such as training, transportation, and vocational rehabilitation. You can call the Ticket to Work Help Line at 1-866-968-7842 or 1-866-833-2967 (TTY).