Thursday, Nov, 02, 2023
18th Annual Illinois Statewide Transition Conference 11/02/23
Thursday, Nov, 09, 2023
Brian Rubin to speak IN-PERSON at NAMI McHenry County 11/09/23 @ 6:00pm – on Guardianship for 18+ and older adults/ aging parents
Thursday, Mar, 07, 2024
Parent Education presentation for NSSEO 03/07/24
How Social Security Evaluates A Trust As A Countable Resource
A person’s resources affect the ability to qualify for crucial government benefits. The Social Security Administration (SSA) sets forth resource limits for SSI applicants and recipients. For example, to qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), countable resources must not be worth more …
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Social Security Recipients to Pocket 5.9% Benefit Increase
Recently, the federal government announced the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2022. This adjustment is applied to federal benefits to be disbursed in 2022. Many analysts expected that the COLA would be the highest since 1983 when it was 7.4 percent. …
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State Increasing Funding For I/DD Community
After a federal judge admonished the State of Illinois in 2017 for failing to meet the requirements of a 2011 consent decree requiring more community-based services for the intellectually and developmentally disabled (I/DD) community, Governor J.B. Pritzker has proposed a …
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