Disability Benefits 101

Veterans in our Peer-Self Advocacy Group constantly pursue Benefits whether their VA or SSA. I'm currently in Ontario Ca. attending the First Annual California Benefits Planning and Counseling Summit and wanted to share this valuable resource to help with your Benefits Planning. Veterans Benefits will soon be added to this site or a newly implemented site. Your feedback as Veterans struggling with 0-100% from the VA and Social Security would really be instrumental in developing this site.

http://www.disabilitybenefits101.org/

First Annual California Benefits Planning and Counseling Summit

December 1^st and 2^nd, 2008

Doubletree Hotel – Ontario Airport

222 North Vineyard Avenue, Ontario, California

Primary Participants: CWICs, WIPA project officers, and other Community Based Benefits Counselors working with California residents living with a disability

Primary Objectives and Outcomes:

→   Increase knowledge: CWICs and other community based benefits counselors come away from the meeting with increased knowledge, informational resources and tools to improve services for the consumers, clients and customers they work with.

→   Increase networking: sharing among participants is facilitated, providing built-in supports for networking, sharing information and problem solving. 

→   Visioning: brainstorm ideas for improving networking, support, skills, capacity of CWICS and benefits counselors in CA. Discussions will shape practical statewide or federally focused recommendations from participants to address current or impending issues in the field or statewide, mindful that recommendations can be shared nationally as participants are so inclined.