SSI/SSDI Advocacy for the TANF and General Assistance Populalation

PCG Human Services can significantly improve your SSI/SSDI disability allowance rates from the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the shortest possible time, and with the least disruption to your organization.

Benefits of SSI/SSDI Enrollment There are a number of advantages for state and county governments and individual recipients to implementing disability screening and application services for TANF and General Assistance caseloads.
Among these:

Increased SSI/SSDI enrollment benefits your state and county:

• States and counties gain from the TANF savings and federal payment of the SSI benefit.
  
• States and counties retain that savings under TANF.

SSI/SSDI enrollment can impact Work Participation Rates (WPR):

Enrolling TANF recipients onto SSI allows the Agency to remove these clients from their caseload. As well, the implementation of new federal guidelines associated with the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 has made it increasingly difficult for states to meet WPRs. Failure to meet WPR goals can result in financial penalties, but states may avoid these WPR penalties if adults with disabilities can satisfy SSI eligibility requirements.

SSI/SSDI enrollment benefits recipients:

• The monthly SSI payment is greater than the TANF payment.

Founded by a former SSA district manager, PCG’s SSI/SSDI Eligibility and Enrollment Services unit has an ‘insider’s view’ of the Social Security Disability process. We approach each project as a partner with SSA and the State Disability Determination Services (DDS) rather than an adversary and we develop close and effective working relationships in all of our contracts.

Our comprehensive, hands-on, and full representation package of services takes into consideration the unique needs of the clientele in relation to the needs of the state. Services include:

• Supplemental Security Income (SSI) initial applications
• Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) initial applications
  • Dependent and payee applications for children
• Continuing Disability Reviews (CDR)
• Training Services
• Consultation Services

We allow state and county disability claiming programs to achieve the highest rate of success in the shortest time frames. We actively pursue the maximum number of claims available, focusing intensively on the initial level of adjudication. We also provide full-service representation of our clients throughout the process, including actively seeking out the necessary medical, vocational, and functional documentation to build the strongest possible case for allowance of all our claims.

PCG Human Services SSI/SSDI Eligibility and Enrollment Services division, a third party, non-representation business unit, has been offering disability benefits services since 1989, with several thousand SSI/SSDI applications filed annually.

• New York State
  • Monroe;
  • Chautauqua and;
  • Westchester Counties
• State of Kentucky – Kinship/TANF

Through our proven approach we have been able to achieve an overall alowance of 63%; TANF cases the nationwide average is 45%.*