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DB101 Launches Upgraded Benefits to Work Calculator
Disability Benefits 101 (www.db101.org) at the World Institute on Disability has upgraded and launched a new 2.0 version of its Benefits to Work Calculator. The Benefits to Work Calculator shows how your benefits might change when taking a job, changing jobs or starting a business. The improved online calculator tool allows workers and job seekers to plan ahead with new features for more personal and real-life planning. Users can now compare new job offers and their impact on benefits and health coverage.
DB101 also launched a newsletter, Employment Matters, news and views from DB101, to share related information on changing times, topics, programs and resources. DB101 visitors can use the subscription link to subscribe directly to the email newsletter.
The revamped website revised its sections on the Earned Income Tax Credit, Individual Development Accounts, and the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Important to many, all these new features are in English and Spanish.
Recently DB101 launched the Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS) Calculator. Social Security’s PASS program can help you set aside money to fund a career goal. DB101’s PASS Calculator provides estimates on how setting up a PASS might affect your finances, and can help you decide if the PASS program is something you want to explore further.
Other calculators include the Medi-Cal for the Working Disabled Calculator, which estimates whether you can access health coverage through Medi-Cal’s 250% Working Disabled Program. DB101’s School and Work Calculator helps youth aged 14 to 18 navigate and plan for important benefit changes that may occur at age 18.
If you are leaving a job or have left one recently, and expect to start your next one within a year, DB101’s Job-to-Job Calculator can show you what might happen to your income and health coverage during the gap.
Work and Benefits Calculators are easy to use, screen reader accessible and in plain language (English and Spanish). They are completely confidential. The DB101 team designed these calculator tools for and with people with disabilities and their families, as well as service providers and the employers who work with them. In developing the new tools, the design team received and used input from benefits planners and beneficiaries using public and private benefits.
A contract with the Social Security Administration allowed DB101 to complete the calculator tools by the end of this year. The calculators are the result of pioneering design and development support since 2002 from the California Department of Rehabilitation, the Employment Development Department, the California Health Incentives Improvement Project, the Community Technology Foundation of California, and The California Endowment. Key design partners are Eightfold Way Consultants, Berkeley, California, and ECONorthwest, Portland, Oregon.
For more information contact:
Bryon MacDonald
Phone: 510-251-4304
TTY: 510-208-9496
Email: bryon@wid.org
DB101 also launched a newsletter, Employment Matters, news and views from DB101, to share related information on changing times, topics, programs and resources. DB101 visitors can use the subscription link to subscribe directly to the email newsletter.
The revamped website revised its sections on the Earned Income Tax Credit, Individual Development Accounts, and the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Important to many, all these new features are in English and Spanish.
Recently DB101 launched the Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS) Calculator. Social Security’s PASS program can help you set aside money to fund a career goal. DB101’s PASS Calculator provides estimates on how setting up a PASS might affect your finances, and can help you decide if the PASS program is something you want to explore further.
Other calculators include the Medi-Cal for the Working Disabled Calculator, which estimates whether you can access health coverage through Medi-Cal’s 250% Working Disabled Program. DB101’s School and Work Calculator helps youth aged 14 to 18 navigate and plan for important benefit changes that may occur at age 18.
If you are leaving a job or have left one recently, and expect to start your next one within a year, DB101’s Job-to-Job Calculator can show you what might happen to your income and health coverage during the gap.
Work and Benefits Calculators are easy to use, screen reader accessible and in plain language (English and Spanish). They are completely confidential. The DB101 team designed these calculator tools for and with people with disabilities and their families, as well as service providers and the employers who work with them. In developing the new tools, the design team received and used input from benefits planners and beneficiaries using public and private benefits.
A contract with the Social Security Administration allowed DB101 to complete the calculator tools by the end of this year. The calculators are the result of pioneering design and development support since 2002 from the California Department of Rehabilitation, the Employment Development Department, the California Health Incentives Improvement Project, the Community Technology Foundation of California, and The California Endowment. Key design partners are Eightfold Way Consultants, Berkeley, California, and ECONorthwest, Portland, Oregon.
For more information contact:
Bryon MacDonald
Phone: 510-251-4304
TTY: 510-208-9496
Email: bryon@wid.org