Next Steps

To learn more about employer-sponsored coverage:

• Talk to the employer’s Human Resources department. It will know about the specifics of the health coverage options it offers.
• Talk to a benefits planner about how your disability affects your health coverage.
• Look at the Iowa Insurance Division's guides to insurance.
• Look at how interaction between Medicare and private health coverage works in How Medicare works with other insurance.
• Call your local Iowa SHIIP and SMP counselor for more information about the interaction between private and public coverage.

Social Security’s Ticket to Work Program helps people with disabilities who get Social Security benefits re-enter the workforce and become more independent. The Ticket to Work Program offers free access to employment-related services, such as training, transportation, and vocational rehabilitation. You can call the Ticket to Work Help Line at 1-866-968-7842 or 1-866-833-2967 (TTY). Learn more on DB101's page about Ticket to Work in Iowa.

A trained Benefits Planner can help you understand your benefits programs. Exactly who you need to contact depends on your situation and the benefits you get.

View DB101's full list of experts who can help you understand different benefits.