SSI in New York
(Separate Website)
Information about the SSI program in New York, including who is eligible, the type of benefits that are included, and the monthly amounts.
By: Social Security Administration
The Differences Between SSI and SSD
(Separate Website)
This fact sheet explains the basic differences between SSI (Supplemental Security Income) and SSD (Social Security Disability).
By: Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.
What You Need To Know When You Get Disability Benefits
(Separate Website)
This booklet explains some of your rights and responsibilities when you receive disability benefits from Social Security.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Interim Assistance
(Separate Website)
This fact sheet explains Interim Assistance, which are benefits from public assistance that you can receive while you are waiting for SSI benefits.
By: Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.
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Spanish / Español
If You are Blind or Have Low Vision: How We Can Help
(Separate Website)
Information on Social Security Disability benefits and SSI Benefits for individuals who are blind or have low vision.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting SSI or SSD
(Separate Website)
Practical information for those applying for SSI and/or Social Security Disability.
By: South Brooklyn Legal Services (A Program of Legal Services NYC)
Disability & SSI Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST)
(Separate Website)
This resource which links to the Social Secuity website provides a screening tool to help identify all the different Social Security programs for which you may be eligible.
By: Social Security Administration
Tips for Doctors Filling Out Applications for SSI and SSD
(Separate Website)
This fact provides helpful tips for doctors when filling out forms from the Social Security Administration to support their patients' SSI or SSD application. You can print out this form and give it to your doctor.
By: MFY Legal Services, Inc.
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Spanish / Español
Continuing Disability Reviews (CDR)
(Separate Website)
Periodically disabled individuals are medically re-evaluated for continuing eligibility. This article explains how that works and what claimants can do to establish on-going eligibility.
By: Disability Law Center
Social Security and SSI Hearings and Appeals
A detailed description of what steps to take if you have applied for disability benefits and have been turned down.
By: Legal Aid Society: Brooklyn Neighborhood Office
Have You Been Denied Social Security Disability Or SSI Disability Benefits?
This resource contains general information about what to do if you have been denied SSD or SSI benefits.
By: Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York - Albany office
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Special Veterans Benefit (SVB) Decision Appeal Form
(Separate Website)
If you want to appeal a decision about a claim for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Special Veterans Benefits, then you can use this form
By: Social Security Administration
SSI Non-citizen Eligibility Criteria
(Separate Website)
This article explains the special rules that may apply to non-citizens seeking SSI benefits.
By: Disability Law Center
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Spanish / Español
SSI Spotlight on SSI benefits for Aliens
(Separate Website)
Lists the alien categories and how they affect SSI eligibility.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Interpreter Services and the Social Security Administration
(Separate Website)
Explains when interpreter services may be necessary, and what qualifications such an interpreter needs to have.
By: Disability Law Center
Do you have trouble with English? Are you unable to to speak, read, write, or understand English well?
(Separate Website)
Did you know federal agencies and organizations that get money from the federal government have to provide reasonable services to assist you? Learn more.
By: Federal Interagency Working Group on LEP
Work Reporting Obligations
(Separate Website)
All work activity by disabled persons must be reported to social security; this article explains the reporting rules.
By: Neighborhood Legal Services
Working While Disabled
(Separate Website)
Information about special programs and incentives for people receiving social security or SSI disability benefits who want to work.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
How Will My SSI Benefits Be Affected if I Take a Job? This fact sheet explains the effect that working might have on your SSI benefits. It explains how much you can earn without losing some or all of your benefits and what happens to your Medicaid benefits if you work.
By: MFY Legal Services, Inc.
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Spanish / Español
2012 Red Book
(Separate Website)
This is a guide to employment supports for individuals with disabilities under both Social Security and SSI.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
SSI and SSDI Work Incentives
(Separate Website)
This fact sheet summarizes a variety of programs and rules that have been created to help SSI and SSDI recipients who are employed.
By: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
The Ticket to Work Program and Other Work Incentives
(Separate Website)
Information about the work incentive program known as "Ticket to Work" as well as other similar programs.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Working While Disabled: A Guide to Plans for Achieving Self-Support
(Separate Website)
Information about a program called Plans for Achieving Self-Support, or "PASS", which helps SSI recipients pay for certain things as part of a plan for working or trying to start a business.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
What is PASS (Plan for Achieving Self-Support)?
(Separate Website)
For SSI disability recipients who want to become economically self-sufficient, this contains detailed information on the PASS program, with page by page descriptions as well as links to tutorials and worksheets.
By: Cornell University Program on Employment and Disability
Impairment Related Work Expense
(Separate Website)
If you are disabled and working, this explains how you can subtract the cost of items or services related to your disability which you need for work when calculating whether you are eligible for Social Security or SSI Disability benefits.
By: Cornell University Program on Employment and Disability
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Subsidies
(Separate Website)
Description of the SSI and Social Security Disability work incentive in which wage earners who are being paid more than the reasonable value of their work can substract that "subsidy" from their earnings when determining eligibility for benefts.
By: Cornell University Program on Employment and Disability
Plans to Achieve Self Support (PASS)
(Separate Website)
This short article explains what a PASS is, what is required to meet the Social Security Administration standards, and how the Social Security Administration evaluates feasibility of a proposed plan.
By: Disability Law Center
Student Earned Income Exclusion
(Separate Website)
This article explains that students under age 22 can have some earned income that will not be counted when determining their eligibility for SSI.
By: Neighborhood Legal Services
Expedited Reinstatement of SSDI or SSI Benefits A disabled individual who is terminated from payment of benefits solely because their work activity exceeds SGA level, may be reinstated without having to file a new application under the expedited reinstatement (EXR) program. This article explains how EXR works.
By: Neighborhood Legal Services
SSI Spotlight on Resources
(Separate Website)
Eligibility for SSI requires that a recipient's resources be limited. This article discusses the nature and amounts of those limitations.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
SSI Spotlight on Property You Need for Self-Support
(Separate Website)
This article focuses on what property for self-support means and how much of it excluded from being counted as a resource.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
SSI Spotlight on Loans
(Separate Website)
Loans taken out or given by an SSI recipient are not ususally counted. This article explains how to determine the implications of a loan.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
SSI Spotlight on Income from the Arts
(Separate Website)
Some SSI recipients occasionally make and sell art work. This article explains how SSI counts such income.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Special Needs Trusts
(Separate Website)
This article discusses what a special needs trust [SNT] is and how it can be used by an SSI recipient to preserve assets that exceed the SSI resource limit.
By: Neighborhood Legal Services
Spotlight on Living Arrangements
(Separate Website)
The amount of SSI benefits a person gets is based in large part on the person's living arrangement. This explains what living arrangements are and how they can change.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Spotlight on Continuing SSI Benefits for Persons Who Are Temporarily Institutionalized
(Separate Website)
An SSI recipient who is hospitalized for 90 days or less may be eligible to continue to receive the community-rate SSI payment under certain circumstances described in this article.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Spotlight on Homelessness
(Separate Website)
This piece explains that homelessness is a living arrangement with special implications, and what those implications are.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
SSI Overpayments
(Separate Website)
This article explains the rules on SSI overpayments and the appeal process.
By: Neighborhood Legal Services
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Spanish / Español
Social Security and SSI Overpayments
(Separate Website)
This article explains how overpayments happen, who SSA holds liable to repay, and how to defend against an overpayment charge.
By: Neighborhood Legal Services
Overpayments
(Separate Website)
This article explains defenses to overpayments.
By: Disability Law Center
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Spanish / Español
SSI Overpayments: What You Can Do When Social Security Claims You Were Paid Too Much SSI
(Separate Website)
This booklet contains detailed information about overpayment issues and advice on overpayment appeals.
By: Disability Law Center
Can Social Security Garnish My Wages to Collect an Old Overpayment
(Separate Website)
This article explains when and how the Social Security Administration can garnish wages and how much it can take.
By: Disability Law Center
How Do I Get a Representative Payee for My Social Security Benefits?
(Separate Website)
Information about representative payees for Social Security or SSI benefits in a simple question and answer format.
By: MFY Legal Services, Inc.
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Spanish / Español
Your Rights As A Person Who Gets SSI or SSD through a Representative payee
(Separate Website)
Explains what a representative payee is, who needs one, what their duties are, and how to receive benefits directly if a representative payee is no longer necessary.
By: Disability Law Center
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Spanish / Español
What Senior Advocates Should Know About Electronic Deposit of Social Security & SSI
This article provides an overview of different types of electronic fund transfer and how they work.
By: National Consumer Law Center
Direct Express Prepaid Debit Card for Social Security, SSI and Other Federal Payments
(Separate Website)
Beginning May 1, 2011, most new applicants for Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and other federal payments who do not designate direct deposit will be paid through the Direct Express® Debit MasterCard instead of by a paper check. Find out more about Direct Express.
By: National Consumer Law Center
What Prisoners Should Know About Social Security
(Separate Website)
Explains how prisoners who are about to be released can get back on benefits if they received benefits before incarceration, and how they can apply if they are seeking benefits for the first time.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Spotlight on Pre-release Procedures
(Separate Website)
Describes the procedures for planning in advance of release from any institutional situation (hospital, jail, etc.) so that an individual who is likely to be eligible for SSI because of age, disability or blindness has benefits available on or close to his or her release date.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
How to Report a Death to the Social Security Administration
How to Report a Death to Social Security Administration
(Separate Website)
This resource provides information on who and where to contact Social Security once a family member passed away. Also provides a brief explanation on can death can impact Social Security benefits.
By: Social Security Administration
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Spanish / Español
Video: How to Work with Interpreters
(Separate Website)
In this video, you will learn some basic tips that will allow you to communicate effectively and easily through an interpreter with a person who doesn't speak your language.
By: Legal Services of New Jersey
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Spanish / Español
Complaints About Attorneys
(Separate Website)
If you have a complaint against an attorney, you may contact the Attorney Disciplinary / Grievance Committee. The office you need to contact depends upon the location of your lawyer's office. Click for more information.
By: New York State Unified Court System
New York State Marriage Equality Act: Frequently Asked Questions for LGBT Couples and Families with No or Low Income - Social Security Administration
(Separate Website)
Even though New York allows same-sex couples to get married, the Social Security Administration, which is a federal agency, does not recognize same-sex couples as married couples for either Social Security Disability or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) purposes.
By: Lambda Legal and Legal Services NYC
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