To: President Donald Trump, The Florida State House, The Florida State Senate, Governor Ron DeSantis, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Ticket to Work Program is Misleading and People on SSD need to Be FULLY informed
Information on this Ticket to Work program needs to Inform individuals of All potential benifits that they may Loose Both by Federal AND The State of FL. PRIOR to seeking work thru this program.
Why is this important?
The ticket to work progam Highly Solicited and Highly promoted thru the SSD/SSI program is Misleading...the SSD/SSI information and pamplets promote that persons that go to work thru this Ticket to work program WILL NOT LOOSE any Benifits while doing this program During the TRIAL period and that Earnings WILL NOT affect their benifits! However this is NOT a Government program despite the Misleading information it is a FLORIDA STATE program...Individuals that take on employemnt thru this proagram WILL LOOSE ANY AND ALL BENIFITS that they recieve from the STATE of FL. I took on a 10 hour a week job and immediately LOST my food stamps, Extra help with my perscriptions and my Share of cost jumped up to $1001. a month. I was forced to quit my job for medical reasons and due to All the benifits I was loosing...then after quitting my job My Monthly benifit from SSD was dropped from $855. a month to $467. starting next month...due to I now owe Back Medicare premiums for the months I worked. I had a total of 9 days notice of this action and when I called SSD they informed me there was NOTHING that They could do as this was NOT a federal program...this was a STATE of FL. program. I have No right to appeal and when contacting Dept of family & services they refer me back to SSD. in the meantime I am being victimized Not only financially, but emotionally and phsyically as well by this. When contacting Governor Rick Scott with my letter...he simply FORWARDED my complaint letter and was NO HELP AT ALL. I wonder Just how many other SSD/SSI recipients are being affected by this? NO ONE SEEMS to Care...I tried to do the right thing and help my financial situation and it only caused me MORE financial Hardship, emotional stress and now I will not even be able to afford my mortgage...Now what? I Feel this is Not only Misleading...but it targets those of us on SSD/SSI for Victimization by our OWN STATE OF FL.