Parent Focus: Four Ways Benefits Support Work
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For more about these and other ways benefits support work, read DB101’s articles about:
- Benefits for Young People, including details about many different benefits and how rules change as your child gets older.
- Parent Focus: Turning 18, which looks at how your child's benefits might change at age 18.
- Supplemental Security Income, which covers SSI’s rules in detail.
- Medical Assistance: Overview, which introduces the different ways a person may qualify for MA.
- Building Your Assets and Wealth, an introduction to asset-building strategies.
- Plans to Achieve Self-Support, an in-depth look at the ways a PASS can help.
- Individual Development Accounts, a detailed look at IDAs and how to set them up.
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