Please reauthorize funding for SSA's Work Incentives Planning and Assistance program so that people with disabilities can continue to receive help in learning how to achieve financial independence.
Why is this important?
People with disabilities are often afraid to work because they fear loss of SSI and SSDI benefits. Therefore, they become dependent on those benefits instead of transitioning off of them to gain self sufficiency. For just over a decade, WIPA programs have shown beneficiaries how to transition from benefit checks to paychecks and from public healthcare benefits to private healthcare benefits, allowing them to achieve greater levels of financial independence.
