Ticket to Work

Social Security’s Ticket to Work program supports career development for people with disabilities who want to work. Social Security disability beneficiaries age 18 through 64 qualify. The Ticket program is free and voluntary. The Ticket program helps people with disabilities progress toward financial independence.

Choosing to work can change your life. The Ticket to Work program and Work Incentives allow you to keep your benefits while you explore employment, receive vocational support and gain work experience. If you are age 18 through 64 and receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and/or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) you already qualify!

Through the Ticket to Work Program, Benefits to Work, can help individuals with disabilities to:

• Enter, re-enter, and/or maintain employment;
• Increase their financial independence and self-sufficiency; and
• Reduce and, whenever possible, eliminate reliance on disability benefits.

Eligible beneficiaries with disabilities who are receiving monthly cash benefit payments may participate by assigning their ticket to Benefits to Work, LLC. If required criteria are met, we will coordinate and provide appropriate ongoing support services necessary to achieve a work goal. If you are currently receiving services from the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), you can re-assign your ticket to Benefits To Work, LLC upon closure of your case.

To figure out if Ticket to Work may be right for you, visit www.ssa.gov/work.