TICKET
WORK
The goal of the Ticket to Work Program is to give disability beneficiaries the opportunity to achieve steady, long-term employment by providing them greater choices and opportunities to go to work if they choose to do so.
Ticket to Work is a voluntary employment-related Program. A beneficiary is free to choose whether or not to use the Ticket as well as when to use it. If the beneficiary decides to use it, he/she takes it to a participating Employment Network in his/her local area or he/she can take it to a State Vocational Rehabilitation Agency.
A beneficiary can only assign his/her ticket to one agency at a time. A beneficiary can change agencies if he/she is not satisfied with the services as long as he/she informs the MAXIMUS Employment Network Coordinator that he/she wishes to do so and why, in writing.
Once a ticket holder identifies the agency that he/she wants to assign his/her ticket to, the ticket-holder talks with and develops a written individual work plan with the agency. After this is done, the ticket is considered "in use".
When a beneficiary's ticket is in use, NO Medical Continuing Disability Reviews take place, as long as the beneficiary demonstrates he/she is making "timely progress" and/or working to meet the goals identified in his/her individual work plan. Demonstrating timely progress allows ticket holders to continue to benefit from suspension of their continuing disability reviews.