§1320b–21 State grants for work incentives assistance to disabled beneficiaries

Summary

The Commissioner of Social Security can pay each State’s protection and advocacy system to help disabled beneficiaries find, get, or keep paid work. The money can pay for giving information about job and rehabilitation services and for advocacy or other help needed to get or keep gainful employment. To receive funds, a protection and advocacy system must apply to the Commissioner in the form and with the information the Commissioner requires. Each recipient must send an annual report to the Commissioner and the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel. Payments come from the amounts for administering Social Security subchapters II and XVI and stay available for payment until the end of the next fiscal year. Minimum payments depend on how much money is appropriated that year. For States (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) the minimum is the greater of $100,000 or one-third of 1 percent of the amount available for payments. For Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands the minimum is $50,000. If the total appropriation increases from one year to the next, the Commissioner must raise each minimum by the same percentage. Commissioner means the Commissioner of Social Security. Disabled beneficiary means a person who meets one of the benefit-related criteria listed in the law. Protection and advocacy system means the system set up under part C of title I of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act. The law authorized $7,000,000 for each fiscal year 2000 through 2011.