Supplemental Security Income vs Social Security Disability
SSDI vs. SSI
SSDI is an earned benefit that focuses on physical and mental impairments that are severe enough to prevent people from engaging in their normal occupations or any other work. Their impairment must be expected to last for at least 12 months or to end in death.
SSDI benefits can be paid to blind or disabled workers, and like Social Security retirement benefits, to their children, to their widows or widowers, and to adults who haven't worked but have been disabled since childhood.
SSI, meanwhile, pays benefits to low-income people who are 65 or older; to adults who are disabled (based on the same definition used by SSDI) or blind; and to children who are disabled and blind. The program is only for people who have very limited income and assets.
Click here for a PowerPoint presentation on Social Security prepared by the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies
1619(b) Social Security program: This allows individuals who work so successfully that they lose their SSI cash benefit to continue to receive Medicaid/MaineCare if needed to be vocationally successful. In Maine, one can earn up to $32,667.00 per year before the 1619(b) benefit is suspended.
Benefits for people with disabilities: https://www.ssa.gov/disability/
Benefits Counseling Services: https://mainehealth.org/maine-medical-center/education-research/community-education-and-health-programs/vocational-services/benefits-counseling
SSDI is an earned benefit that focuses on physical and mental impairments that are severe enough to prevent people from engaging in their normal occupations or any other work. Their impairment must be expected to last for at least 12 months or to end in death.
SSDI benefits can be paid to blind or disabled workers, and like Social Security retirement benefits, to their children, to their widows or widowers, and to adults who haven't worked but have been disabled since childhood.
SSI, meanwhile, pays benefits to low-income people who are 65 or older; to adults who are disabled (based on the same definition used by SSDI) or blind; and to children who are disabled and blind. The program is only for people who have very limited income and assets.
Click here for a PowerPoint presentation on Social Security prepared by the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion & Disability Studies
1619(b) Social Security program: This allows individuals who work so successfully that they lose their SSI cash benefit to continue to receive Medicaid/MaineCare if needed to be vocationally successful. In Maine, one can earn up to $32,667.00 per year before the 1619(b) benefit is suspended.
Benefits for people with disabilities: https://www.ssa.gov/disability/
Benefits Counseling Services: https://mainehealth.org/maine-medical-center/education-research/community-education-and-health-programs/vocational-services/benefits-counseling