Do you receive benefits because you have a disability? Do you want to go back to work? Are you worried that you might lose essential benefits if you have earnings?
Through the Pathways to Independence Program, the RiCH Company provides comprehensive benefits counseling services to individuals with disabilities who are interested in returning to work. The report is provided at no cost and provides the individual with information about work incentives, rules, programs, and the effect of earning on other state and federal benefits.
For more information about the RiCH Company's Benefits Counseling Services, click here.
For more information about the Wisconsin Pathways to Independence Program, click here.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Pathways to Independence Program:
What is the Pathways to Independence Program?
The Pathways office houses a number of initiatives designed to address the barriers to employment and community living faced by many individuals with disabilities. Pathways, with input from key stakeholders including consumers, advocates and policy makers, identifies current systemic barriers and designs creative pilots to address them. The goal is to test innovative solutions to existing problems and incorporate them into the overall consumer-driven, systems change movement in Wisconsin. In addition to addressing systemic problems in Wisconsin, The Pathways Team provides technical assistance to other states interested in replicating similar initiatives.
How does the Program work?
To take advantage of RiCH Vocational Services Benefits Counseling services available through this program, an individual will first meet with a trained benefits counselor to talk about the benefits that they receive, other benefits that they may be eligible for, and how working would affect those benefits.
After meeting with the individual, the benefits counselor will verify this information with Social Security and any other source from which the individual receives benefits and write up a report. This report will be bound together with several appendixes, which will include quick reference sheets to the information included in the report.
After the benefits have been verified and the report has been written, the benefits counselor will meet with the individual again to go over all of the information contained in the report and answer any additional questions that they may have. RiCH Vocational Services benefits counselors are based throughout the state and can meet with individuals in their homes, or at area libraries, job centers, or DVR offices.
How long has RiCH Vocational Services been working with Pathways?
RiCHVS has been working under this program for over five years.
For more information on the RiCH Company’s comprehensive benefits counseling services, or to see if you qualify for a free benefits counseling report, call (888)348-6182