Services Ticket-To-Work

TICKET-TO-WORK PROGRAM

The Ticket-to-Work Program is an employment program for people who are receiving Social Security and are interested in going to work and getting off of Social Security. Ticket-to-Work opens doors giving more choices for receiving employment services to any individual who has a disability and wishes to seek employment. We can provide the Ticket-to-Work candidates with vocational and employment readiness assessment and evaluation services. This service is designed to assist the individual in evaluating their goals and employment skills and/or abilities. Our goal is to pilot our clients to achieve meaningful employment outcomes including entering or retaining full-time employment.

Services can include:

· Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling

· Vocational Evaluation & Testing

· Case Management

· Job Development/Placement Assistance

· Job Supports (up to 5 years)

What is the Ticket Program?

The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going to work. The Ticket Program is part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 – legislation designed to remove many of the barriers that previously influenced people’s decisions about going to work because of the concerns over losing health care coverage. The goal of the Ticket Program is to increase opportunities and choices for Social Security disability beneficiaries to obtain employment, vocational rehabilitation (VR), and other support services from public and private providers, employers, and other organizations.

Under the Ticket Program, the Social Security Administration (also referred to as the Agency) provides disability beneficiaries with a Ticket they may use to obtain the services and jobs they need from a new universe of organizations called Employment Networks (ENs).

How Does the Program Work?

The Ticket Program is flexible and voluntary – Social Security Administration beneficiaries are not mandated to participate and in most cases, ENs can chose which services they want to provide, where, and to whom. Beneficiaries receiving Tickets can contact one or more ENs to discuss services and once an agreement between the beneficiary and EN is reached, the two work together to develop a work plan to assist the beneficiary in reaching his or her employment goal.

Every month a Ticket-holder is employed at a certain wage level, ENs receive revenue.

What is an EN?

Any agency or instrumentality of a state (or political subdivision), or a private entity that takes responsibility for the actual delivery of services or the coordination/referral of services is eligible to apply to be an Employment Network (EN).

Employment Networks can be a single entity, a partnership or alliance of entities (public and/or private), or a consortium of organizations collaborating to combine resources to serve Ticket-holders.

Below you will find a sample of a ticket that was taken from SSA web site: