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Career > Finding Jobs
Work Incentives Planning and Assistance: Benefits Counseling Before Returning to Work
...your benefits if you take it? For people who receive SSI or SSDI, that question isn't hypothetical worry. Your monthly cash benefit, your Medicaid or Medicare coverage, your prescription drug access: all of it runs through formulas that change when you earn wages. Get the calculation wrong and you can lose...
Career > Finding Jobs
Ticket to Work Program: Using SSA Benefits to Find Employment
...SSI or SSDI, you've likely avoided job opportunities because trying to work feels like gambling with your healthcare and income stability. Losing Medicare or Medicaid coverage while testing whether you can sustain employment is a risk most people can't afford. The Ticket to Work program exists to change...
Financial > Financial Planning
Assistive Technology Grants: Where the Money Is and How Families Actually Get It
...modifications like ramps or bathroom grab bars. Prices have climbed sharply since 2019. Power wheelchairs are up 51% due to tariff-related component costs. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates lag 19 months behind actual costs, which means manufacturers and suppliers can't rely on government insurance alone....
Parenting > Adulthood
When Your Child Grows Up & Out of Special Ed
...school. I was unrealistic. I hope I can give other parents ideas on what to do and/or expect for supported work services, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare for such children. After I applied for him, the nearest NPO did not agree to give my son supported work services. Yet, I had done paperwork...
Legal > Government Benefits
Medicare vs Medicaid for Children with Disabilities: Which Coverage Does Your Child Receive
...the second paragraph it mentions healthcare coverage, but it doesn't explain which program you're enrolled in or what it covers. You've heard both Medicare and Medicaid mentioned by other parents, and you're not sure which one applies to your family. The answer depends entirely on which disability benefit...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
CMS Is Proposing to End Medicare Coverage for Wheelchair Seat Elevation Systems. Here's What Families Can Do Now.
...February 25, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed...Determination (LCD) that would deny Medicare coverage for seat elevation systems...The proposal affects thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who rely on seat elevation...Proposed. The proposed LCD would deny Medicare coverage for seat elevation systems...
Legal > Healthcare
Prior Authorization Denials Jumped 56%. New Rules Make Insurer Data Public and Give Families More Power to Fight Back.
...for the first time under CMS Rule CMS-0057-F. The numbers are damning. Medicare Advantage plans denied prior authorization requests at rates ranging from...justification. What the March 31 Transparency Deadline Means. Under CMS-0057-F, Medicare Advantage plans and ACA marketplace plans must now publish data on: Total...
Legal > Government Benefits
Federal Fraud Investigations Are Freezing Home Care Funding. What Families Should Do Now.
The Trump administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is using fraud investigations to freeze Medicaid funding that pays for home and community-based services in multiple states....
Legal > Government Benefits
CMS Just Proposed New Cuts to the Medicaid Payments That Fund Disability Home Care. Here's What Families Can Do Before July 21.
On May 22, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register...is proposing now goes further. The agency is setting the cap at 100% of Medicare rates for states that expanded Medicaid, or 110% for states that didn't...
Legal > Government Benefits
Medicaid and CHIP Coverage Is Changing for Immigrant Families on October 1. Here's What Families With Disabled Members Need to Do Now.
On April 8, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released guidance implementing a July 2025 reconciliation bill provision that restricts federal matching funds for Medicaid and...
News > Advocacy
Your Doctor's Patient Portal Has 18 Days to Become Accessible. Here's What Disability Families Need to Know Before It Gets Delayed.
...Section 504 final rule requires all healthcare organizations receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding to have accessible patient portals, telehealth platforms,...means hospitals, clinics, therapists, and telehealth providers funded by Medicare or Medicaid must have accessible digital systems right now. If your provider's...
Legal > Government Benefits
CMS Just Ordered All 50 States to Revalidate Their Medicaid Providers in 30 Days. Here's What Families Who Rely on Those Providers Need to Do Now.
On April 21, 2026, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is requiring all 50 states to submit plans for revalidating their Medicaid providers within 30 days. This isn't a targeted investigation...