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No matter what your needs may be, self-advocacy can be a powerful tool throughout your life. If you are just beginning your personal recovery process, you might find that self-advocacy helps you take small steps. As your self-advocacy efforts continue, you will surprise yourself with what you have achieved.
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Childhood Disability Benefits (CDB)
Benefits for disabled adult children of recipients of Social Security disability or retirement benefits. Formerly known as Disabled Adult Child (DAC) benefits.
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:46 PM
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Disability (Definition used by California State Disability Insurance - SDI)
Any illness or injury which prevents an individual from doing their regular or customary work. SDI includes disabilities resulting from elective surgery, pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. The disability must be verifiable by a medical...
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Sun, Jan 03 2010 12:05 AM
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Deemed Income
CAPI; CalWORKs The amount of another person’s income – spouse, sponsor , sponsor’s spouse, parent – that is considered to belong to the individual regardless of whether the person receives this money.
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Sun, Jan 03 2010 12:02 AM
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Blue Book (Listing of Impairments)
The Social Security publication that provides detailed information about disability programs to physicians and other health care professionals. The Blue Book includes the complete Listing of Impairments, which lists and defines those conditions considered...
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:41 PM
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Community Service
Temporary or transitional work that is performed in the public or private nonprofit sector that provides the Welfare-to-Work participant with job skills that can lead to employment.
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:48 PM
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Break-Even Point (BEP)
This is the income amount which reduces your Supplemental Security Income payment to zero when Social Security uses the countable income calculation . Your break even point can be determined by your earned and unearned income, living arrangements, and...
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:42 PM
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CalWORKs
California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids. The state welfare-to-work program that provides income support and access to health coverage on a temporary basis. CalWORKs was formerly Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:44 PM
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County Organized Health System (COHS)
Health-insuring organizations that are organized and operated by a governing board appointed by the county’s Board of Supervisors. All Medi-Cal beneficiaries residing within the county are required to enroll unless they have a voluntary aid code...
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:59 PM
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Advance Earned Income Tax Credit (AEITC)
A program that allows individuals with at least one qualifying child to incrementally receive the Earned Income Tax Credit in their paycheck throughout the year.
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:25 PM
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The Family Participation Fund
What is the Family Participation Fund? In an effort to helping family members voice their opinions about education policy, the California Department of Education, through the State Improvement Grant, established the Family Participation Fund. California...
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 3:18 PM
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1619(a)
1619(a) Rules that allow Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients to keep their SSI benefit at a lower level when they return to work.
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:15 PM
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What have you left undone?
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." -Picasso "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other...
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 1:47 PM
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Base Period
The yearlong period that SDI uses to determine your regular wages. It starts around 17 months before your disability and ends around 5 months before then. Your base period is divided into 4 quarters, and the quarter with the highest wage is used to determine...
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Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:35 PM
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Deeming Rules
Rules used by Social Security and Medi-Cal that determine an individual’s eligibility when living with a non-disabled spouse. If the individual is a minor, deeming rules apply to the parents.
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Sun, Jan 03 2010 12:04 AM
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disabilities
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advocacy
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expenses
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Disability Rights...Know Them..and Empower Yourself
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Support
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enroll
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medicare
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"Income Calculation"
California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
The state welfare-to-work program that provides income support and access to health coverage on a temporary basis. CalWORKs was formerly Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).
Published
Sat, Jan 02 2010 11:43 PM
by
Anthony Swetala
Filed under:
requires
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essential
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necessary
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goals
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attitudes
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"Self-advocacy"
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yourself
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assistance
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family
,
grants
,
funding
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disabilities
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advocacy
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expenses
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Disability Rights...Know Them..and Empower Yourself
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Support
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appeals
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