Helping Inmates Obtain Federal Disability Benefits
Thousands of severely ill inmates are released from the Nation’s prisons and jails each year. Helping them find ways to pay for medical and mental health care and living expenses is thought to be a crucial part of ensuring their successful return to the community. Some of these releasees may be eligible for disability benefits available through Federal entitlement programs, such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Medicaid, Medicare, and veterans pension or compensation funds. Making these types of benefits available to qualifying releasees as soon after release as possible is believed to be critical to preventing relapse, recidivism, and reinstitutionalization.
One way to increase the probability that benefits commence shortly after release is to file the necessary paperwork before inmates are released. Because application processes are typically complex and time-consuming, and because inmates face a number of obstacles to completing applications themselves, ill inmates are likely to fare best when qualified discharge planners assist in filing applications.
InmateAid has the entire 62-page report, the benefits included are often hard to find and difficult to get accomplished. This document has all the valuable content and resources you will need.
One way to increase the probability that benefits commence shortly after release is to file the necessary paperwork before inmates are released. Because application processes are typically complex and time-consuming, and because inmates face a number of obstacles to completing applications themselves, ill inmates are likely to fare best when qualified discharge planners assist in filing applications.
InmateAid has the entire 62-page report, the benefits included are often hard to find and difficult to get accomplished. This document has all the valuable content and resources you will need.