Recommended Reading and Links
Recommended Reading and Links
SSI/SSDI
- Stepping Stones to Recovery: This guide provides information for case managers assisting adults who are homeless, with Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income applications, including an overview of the application process and sample forms.
- “Disability Doc” website: Provides a clinician’s view of the Social Security disability process.
- American Association of Retired Persons’ (AARP’s) Social Security Disability Insurance materials: Includes a fact sheet that provides an overview of SSDI and research materials.
- SSA’s Disability Evaluation Under Social Security, also known as the “Blue Book”: Provides physicians and other health professionals with an understanding of the disability programs administered by the Social Security Administration and how each program works.
- SSA’s Consultative Examination Guide, also known as the “Green Book”: This guide explains how state Disability Determination Services (DDS) requests CEs, what to look for in reviewing CEs, and the essential elements of CE reports for specialties most often involved in CEs for adult and pediatric disability cases.
Medicaid
Miscellaneous
- Arrested? What Happens to Your Benefits If You Go to Jail or Prison? by Chris Koyanagi: This booklet explains to people with disabilities who have been arrested what happens to their federal benefits—health coverage, disability checks, veterans’ benefits, and other resources—if they go to jail or prison and how to recover these benefits quickly when released.
- A Better Life— A Safer Community: Helping Inmates Access Federal Benefits, by Chris Koyanagi: This paper discusses access to federal benefit programs for adults with serious mental illnesses and juveniles with serious mental or emotional disorders leaving jail, prison, juvenile detention, or other correctional institutions.
- Finding the Key to Successful Transition from Jail to Community, by Robert Bernstein: This paper, developed for state and local criminal justice and community mental health programs, explains how federal Medicaid and disability program rules can enable jail inmates with serious mental illnesses to qualify for benefits upon their release.
- Helping Inmates Obtain Federal Disability Benefits, by Catherine H. Conley: This report describes the experiences of three sites—the state of New York, the city of Philadelphia, and the state of Texas—that help prison or jail inmates prepare and file prerelease applications to initiate or restart federal disability benefits.
- General Assistance Programs: The State-Based Part of the Safety Net, by The Urban Institute. This publication outlines features of general assistance programs across the country.
