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Use DB101’s School and Work Estimator to get a sense of how work could impact your child’s benefits.

To learn more about these and other ways benefits support work, read DB101’s articles about:

• Parent Focus: Four Ways Benefits Support Work, which covers the key ways that benefits programs support beneficiaries who start earning money.
• Benefits for Young People, which has details about many different benefits and how rules change as your child gets older.
• Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which covers SSI’s rules in detail.
• The Iowa Health and Wellness Plan, which explains how people with and without disabilities can get Medicaid.
• Disability-Based Medicaid, which explains other ways that people with disabilities may qualify for Medicaid coverage.
• Medicaid for Employed People with Disabilities (MEPD), which explains how people with disabilities can earn a lot of money at work and still keep their Medicaid coverage.
• Building Your Assets and Wealth, an introduction to asset-building strategies.

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.