Social Security and SSI
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Prepaid Debit Cards for Social Security and SSI Benefits
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients have a new way of receiving their benefits: a MasterCard-branded prepaid Direct Express debit card. Read on to learn more about the program. Content Detail
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Help in Applying for Social Security
This program assists the homeless in applying for Social Security, including information gathering and appeals. Read More
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Are you eligible for benefits? Can you apply online?
Answer online questions and be directed to benefits for which you may be eligible. Read More
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Social Security - Disability and Retirement
The Social Security program provides disability benefits to insured workers and their dependents, and provides retirement benefits to insured workers, their dependents, and surviving family members. Click on the link for more information. Read More
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A Guide to Social Security and SSI
You can apply for Social Security online by visiting this site. The site also has information about Retirement, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits, and Supplemental Security Income. Read More
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More Information about Social Security PDF
This is a newsletter with several articles about Social Security. It has a frequently asked questions section near the end of the newsletter that might be helpful. Click on the title "More Information about..." to learn more. You can open this link only if you already have Adobe Reader on your computer. If you do not, go to www.adobe.com, look for the yellow icon that reads "Get Adobe Reader", click on that icon and follow the instructions to upload the program onto your computer. Content Detail
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Social Security and Supplemental Social Security Income
This chapter describes Social Security, Retirement, Disability and Supplemental Security Benefits. (The Senior Law Handbook is a project of the Colorado Bar Association's Elder Law and Trust and Estate Sections.) Content Detail
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Information about Social Security in 15 languages
This site provides information in 15 different languages, including useful information about Social Security programs and SSA's interpreter service. Content Detail
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Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
SSI provides benefits to people who have limited income and resources and who are 65 or older, blind, or have a disability. Click on the link for more information. Read More
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Arrested? What Happens to Your Benefits If You Go to Jail or Prison?
This guide explains what will happen to your federal benefits if you are arrested and held in jail or prison, and how you can get them back when you are released. The guide must be ordered through their website and costs $2.50 per booklet. Content Detail
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Social Security and Overpayment
Information about what you can do if the Social Security Administration is claiming you were paid too much in Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits. Read More
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Marriage and Public Benefits
When a person who receives public benefits marries, his or her benefits can change or stop, depending on the person?s age and which benefits he or she is receiving, as well as other factors. This section will outline some effects that marriage can have on some specific public benefit programs. Content Detail
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Information about planning for retirement, disability and survivors benefits
This online Benefits Planner has Retirement, Disability and Survivors Planners with valuable information about benefits and factors that can affect them. Content Detail
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Social Security Benefits and Representative Payee
If Social Security determines you cannot manage your benefits on your own due to mental or physical disabilities, they will choose someone else and designate them "representative payee". Read more about that here. Read More
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Office of Dispute Resolution
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch. Content Detail
