DARS - Ticket to Work: TTW/SSI/SSDI

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DEFINITION

DARS: Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Service

SSDI: Social Security Disability Insurance

SSI: Supplemental Security Income via TTW Incentive/Employment Support

Career Development & Job Coaching/Placement

Working with DARS, DLC offers several different career assistance programs to individuals with disabilities or any barrier to learning. Our career development and job coaching includes, on-site training for consumers needing: assistance in adapting to employment, and instruction in learning the skills necessary to perform a job competently.

Ticket to Work Program:

The Ticket to Work (TTW)and Self-Sufficiency Program is an employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going to work. The Ticket Program is part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 – legislation designed to remove many of the barriers that previously influenced people’s decisions about work, because of the concerns over losing health care coverage. The goal of the Ticket Program is to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation (VR), and other support services from public and private providers, employers, and other organizations. The TTW implements its work program via Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). The SSDI is authorized under Title II of the Social Security Act. SSDI provides benefits to disabled or blind individuals who are "insured" by workers' contributions to the social security trust fund. These contributions are Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) social security tax paid on their earnings, or those of their spouses or parents. DLC will provide the following TTW services:

• Resume writing techniques

• Job-searching skills

• Preparing for an interview

• Dressing appropriately

DLC will also provide the following Social skills enrichment training:

- Establishing friendly relationships

- Understanding and Expressing Emotions

- Increasing Attention and Listening skills

- Accepting Responsibility

- Developing Assertiveness and a vibrant Self-Concept

- Learning Effective Problem-Solving Strategies

- Working Cooperatively

- Coping Skills Development

Community Outreach

DLC’s community outreach includes organizations, groups and or individual that support people with disabilities and special needs. In so doing, students and individuals will gain valuable, far reaching lessons, which will impact the world around them, making a difference one person at a time.

 

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