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RiCH VOCATIONAL SERVICES / The Pathways to Independence Program

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?

Comprehensive Benefits Counseling Services are designed to provide individuals who receive about work incentives, rules, programs, and the effect of earning on other state and federal benefits the ability to make informed choices while transitioning to work.

If you would like to work, but are worried that you might lose essential benefits if you have earnings call today to see if you qualify for a free benefits couseling report: 888-348-6182 ext. 15.

What is the Pathways to Independence Program?
Many people with significant disabilities want to work. They have skills, talents and experience to offer employers, but face barriers to employment that prevent them from reaching their full potential. They fear losing their health care coverage and often struggle to understand the complex and uncoordinated array of benefits and employment services available.

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.

RiCH Vocational Services has been working under this program for over two years.


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