Next Steps

For more about how to support your child as he or she looks for a job and gets one, read DB101’s articles:

• Start Planning Now, which covers many of the basic issues faced by young people with disabilities as they become adults.
• Finding a Job, which discusses the processes involved in deciding what sorts of work to look for and strategies for finding that work.
• Working, which looks at what happens after your child gets a job and includes valuable suggestions about making sure work goes well.
• Four Ways Benefits Support Work, which looks at why your child will be better off when working.
• Use DB101’s School and Work Estimator to get a sense of how work could impact your child’s benefits.

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.