Promising Practices: Ensuring Choice Under the Ticket to Work Program - The Indiana PABSS Approach

Cebula, Ray

Promising Practices: Ensuring Choice Under the Ticket to Work Program - The Indiana PABSS Approach

Abstract

The Ticket to Work program offered disabled and blind social security beneficiaries the promise of greater choice when selecting a vocational rehabilitation provider. With the issuance of Transmittal #17, much of the opportunity to choose a provider was removed. The Protection and Advocacy agency in Indiana took steps to protect the rights of disabled and blind beneficiaries to choose providers in the face of this significant policy change. Learn what was done to protect the rights and ability of beneficiaries to seek and choose vocational rehabilitation providers.

Date Issued

2005-03-01

Keywords

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Types

article