New Employment Network Orientation Teleconference Training

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New Employment Network Orientation
TeleconferenceTraining

• Functioning as an Employment Network and the
• Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program

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Agenda

• Welcome
• Resources
• Ticket Management
• Requesting Payments
• Technical Assistance

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Welcome

• Thank you for joining us for the New Employment
  Network Teleconference Training.
• We look forward to working together.

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Resources

• MAXIMUS Operations Support Manager
• Social Security Administration
• Benefits Planning, Assistance and Outreach
• Protection Advocacy

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MAXIMUS

• Call Center
• Technical Assistance
• Web Site Resources
• Employment Network Capitalization Project

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Call Center

• Staff available to provide information to
  Beneficiaries, and to assist Employment Networks

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Technical Assistance

• Staff available to assist Employment Networks
  with day to day functioning within the Ticket to
  Work and Self-Sufficiency Program
• 866-968-7842

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Web Site Resources

• Available at www.yourtickettowork.com
• EN/VR Services
• Training

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Web Site Resources

• Training Modules and PowerPoint Slides
• Courses through Blackboard
• SSA Disability Programs and Work Incentives
• Functioning as an EN
• Requesting Payment
• Management of the Ticket Process
• Guides
• Employment Network Handbook
• IWP Development
• Requesting Payment
• Customized Training Programs

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EN Capitalization Project

• The EN Capitalization Project includes an EN
  Capitalization Resource Directory of information
  on how to access funding from government grants,
  foundations and private financial capital.
  Training on the use of this resource is also
  available.

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Social Security Administration

• Area Work Incentives Coordinators
• Area Work Incentives Liaisons

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Benefits Planning, Assistance and Outreach (BPAO)

• Provide all SSA beneficiaries with disabilities
  (including transition-to-work aged youth) access
  to benefits planning and assistance services.
  Cooperative agreements were awarded throughout
  every State, The District of Columbia, and the
  U.S. Territories of American Samoa, Guam,
  Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the
  Virgin Islands.

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Protection Advocacy

• Assist beneficiaries with disabilities in
  obtaining information and advice about receiving
  vocational rehabilitation and employment
  services.
• Provide advocacy or other related services that
  beneficiaries with disabilities may need to
  secure or regain gainful employment.

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Ticket Management

• Ticket
• Ticket Eligibility
• Ticket Assignment
• Individual Work Plan
• Continuing Disability Review Protection
• Ticket Unassignment

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Ticket Eligibility

• Age 18 to 64
• In current pay status based on disability
• disability that is not designated as a medical
  improvement expected diary review case

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Ticket Assignment

• Assignment is effected by submitting a signed and
  dated Individual Work Plan to the Operations
  Support Manager.

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Individual Work Plan

• Described in the Regulations, and the Employment
  Network Request for Proposal.
• Assistance available from the Operations Support
  Manager.

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Continuing Disability Review Protection

• Ticket assignment and active participation
  provide protection from regularly scheduled
  medical review.

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Ticket Unassignment

• The Beneficiary or Employment Network may
  unassign the Ticket by submitting written request
  to the Operations Support Manager.

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Requesting Payments

• When to Request Payments
• What to Submit
• Where to Send
• New Certification Payment Request Options

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When to Request Payment

• When the Ticket-holder has attained the level of
  earnings necessary for the Employment Network to
  qualify for payment.
• See Guide to Requesting Payments.

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What to Submit

• Payment Request Form available from the
  Operations Support Manager (or information
  requested in the form). And evidence of
  Ticket-holders earnings.

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Where to Send

• MAXIMUS Ticket to Work
• Payment Request
• PO Box 25105
• Alexandria, VA 22313-5105
• Or Fax to 703.683.3289
• Attention Payment Request

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New Certification Payment Request Options

• Once an Outcome Payment has been received by an
  Employment Network, there are options available
  regarding submitting evidence of earnings.
• See Certification Payment Request Options.

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Technical Assistance

• Ticket Management and Payments
• Employment Network Operations
• Training and Technical Assistance

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Ticket Management and Payments

• Questions regarding Ticket assignment, Ticket
  management, and payments
• 1-866-968-7842

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Employment Network Operations

• Employment Network reporting, and successful
  strategies
• 1-866-968-7842

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Training

• Available to assist your Employment Network in
  understanding all aspects of the Ticket to Work
  and Self-Sufficiency Program.

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Training Department Contacts

• Terry Martin, Manager
• 703.236.6602 or 866-968-7842 X 6602
• terrymartin_at_maximus.com
• Michelle Grande, Training Coordinator
• 703.236.6618 or 866-968-7842 X 6618
• michellegrande_at_maximus.com