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

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

• Parent Focus: Turning 18, which looks at how your child's benefits might change at age 18.
• Benefits for Young People, including details about many different benefits and how rules change as your child gets older.
• Supplemental Security Income, which covers SSI’s rules in detail.
• Georgia Pathways to Coverage Medicaid, which covers people with and without disabilities.
• Disability-based Medicaid: other ways people with disabilities may qualify for Medicaid coverage.
• Building Your Assets and Wealth, an introduction to asset-building strategies.
• ABLE Accounts, which covers a great way for people with disabilities to save up money.
• Plans to Achieve Self-Support, an in-depth look at the ways a PASS can help.

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).

A trained benefits expert can help you understand your benefits programs. Exactly who you need to contact depends on your situation and the benefits you get.

View DB101's full list of experts who can help you understand different benefits.

The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA) helps people with physical and mental disabilities prepare for and find work. GVRA can help you get the training or other services that you need to return to work, enter a new line of work, keep working, or get a job for the first time. Services are carefully chosen to match your personal needs, and your GVRA counselor will work with you to decide which GVRA services are best for you.

Learn more about GVRA services and how to apply.