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A Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) is a Social Security work incentive designed to help individuals with disabilities pursue employment goals while maintaining eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Through a PASS, an individual may set aside income and/or resources to pay for items or services needed to reach a specific vocational goal.
The Veterans Administration (VA) operates a vocational rehabilitation and Education program for eligible veterans. Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment is an employment-oriented program that assists veterans with service-connected disabilities by offering services and assistance to help them prepare for, find and keep suitable employment. Suitable employment is work that is within the veterans’ physical, mental and emotional capabilities and matches their patterns of skills, abilities and interests. For veterans whose disabilities make employment unlikely, VA helps them attain as much daily living independence as possible.
The Ticket to Work 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 going to 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.