Priority: (PADD, PAIMI, PAIR, PATBI, PAAT)

• Do you receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and want to work?
• Do you need help understanding SSA beneficiary rules, legal issues, and disability-related employment issues?

ADAP's "Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security" (PABSS) program provides adults and older youth with disabilities with free legal services around work issues, including:

• Access to and Disputes with Community Service Providers
• Special Education and Transition Planning for High School Students
• Health Care
• Disability Benefits and Work Incentives
• Rights and Conditions of Employment
• Vocational Rehabilitation and Preparation
• Rights, Responsibilities, and Reasonable Accommodations under the ADA
• Wage and Hour Issues
• Transportation
• Housing
• Assistance Removing Barriers to a Beneficiary's Return-to-Work goal

To request more information about our PABSS's program or to schedule an intake regarding an employment issue, click here.

 

Resources:

• The Alabama Work Incentives Network (Ala-WIN) - Ala-WIN helps SSI and SSDI beneficiaries, between the ages of 14 and 64, understand their work options so that they may make more informed choices regarding employment. Ala-WIN is administered by Independent Living Resources of Greater Birmingham, Inc. and United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham and serves 38 central and northern Alabama Counties. http://www.alawin.org/index.php

• Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services (ADRS) Social Security Disability Programs - Serving 29 counties in the southern part of the state, ADRS operates a work incentives program to help SSI and SSDE beneficiaries make informed decisions regarding issues related to returning to work and how employment may affect their current and future benefit status. http://www.rehab.state.al.us/Home/default.aspx?url=/Home/Services/VRS/SSDI+and+SSI/Main

 

 

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