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Secure Your Financial Future: A Toolkit for Individuals with Disabilities
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The LEAD Center, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Employee Benefits Security Administration, and Employment & Training Administration collaborated to develop Secure Your Financial Future: A Toolkit for Individuals with Disabilities, a financial toolkit for people with disabilities who are experiencing financial stress and unemployment.
The toolkit includes resources for people with disabilities as they strive to obtain or maintain employment and the financial stability and freedom it provides. The toolkit is organized around the five stages of the employment lifecycle:
1. Preparing for a job.
Resources in this section are for people of all ages who are entering the workforce for the first time. This section addresses budgeting, how much someone needs to earn and the impact work will have on any public benefits they currently receive.
2. Starting a job.
When someone gets a job, they have decisions to make about their new pay and benefits, if and when to disclose a disability, and how to save for retirement. The resources in this section help people navigate those choices.
3. Maintaining a job.
The longer someone works for an organization, the more likely they are to receive a raise or promotion. Over time, they may also experience new needs for accommodations, whether due to a new disability, because they have changing responsibilities or because restrictions have changed the nature of their work. This section provides resources to help workers maintain a job, including how to request accommodations to help them perform their best.
4. Changing or losing a job.
Many people, both with and without disabilities, have lost their jobs. This section covers options for future directions.
5. Retiring.
Planning for retirement can come with a lot of questions. This section helps people understand employer-sponsored retirement and healthcare benefits, and other savings programs.
1. Preparing for a job.
Resources in this section are for people of all ages who are entering the workforce for the first time. This section addresses budgeting, how much someone needs to earn and the impact work will have on any public benefits they currently receive.
2. Starting a job.
When someone gets a job, they have decisions to make about their new pay and benefits, if and when to disclose a disability, and how to save for retirement. The resources in this section help people navigate those choices.
3. Maintaining a job.
The longer someone works for an organization, the more likely they are to receive a raise or promotion. Over time, they may also experience new needs for accommodations, whether due to a new disability, because they have changing responsibilities or because restrictions have changed the nature of their work. This section provides resources to help workers maintain a job, including how to request accommodations to help them perform their best.
4. Changing or losing a job.
Many people, both with and without disabilities, have lost their jobs. This section covers options for future directions.
5. Retiring.
Planning for retirement can come with a lot of questions. This section helps people understand employer-sponsored retirement and healthcare benefits, and other savings programs.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2021
- Author(s): LEAD Center, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Employee Benefits Security Administration
- Organizational Author(s): US Department of Labor
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