Best Work Incentives
Work Incentive Planning & Assistance (WIPA) Benefits Counseling helps individuals receiving SSI or SSDI understand how work and income affect their benefits, healthcare coverage, and long-term financial stability.
What is WIPA?
The Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA) program provides personalized guidance on how employment earnings can impact public benefits. WIPA benefits counseling helps you understand how SSI, SSDI, food assistance, housing support, Medicare, and Medicaid change as you return to work or increase earnings.
Community Work Incentives Coordinators (CWICs)
Community Work Incentives Coordinators (CWICs) complete extensive federal training to ensure individuals receive accurate, personalized benefits counseling. CWICs meet with beneficiaries individually—either by phone or in person—and research each client’s unique benefits profile.
CWICs Will:
- Explain how employment and earnings affect cash and medical benefits.
- Review all available work incentives—automatic and optional.
- Provide information about the Ticket to Work program and Employment Networks.
- Guide applicants through the PASS Program (Plan to Achieve Self-Support).
- Offer referrals for services outside the WIPA program’s scope.
Get Started
To begin services, call 904-718-1792 or ask your Vocational Rehabilitation counselor for a referral to WIPA services through Best Work Incentives. These services are provided at no cost to VR consumers.
Required release forms are available below. Once completed, forms may be faxed to 904-339-9988.
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