Deaf Disability Benefits Specialist

Need help with your benefits?

The Deaf Disability Benefit Specialist provides statewide work incentives and disability benefit services to people who are Deaf, hard of hearing or Deaf-Blind. Here are some areas and programs that the Deaf Disability Benefit Specialist can help you with:

• Food Share
• Housing and Utility Issues
• Medicaid (Medical Assistance)
• Medicare, including Part D
• Low-Income Tax Credits
• Prescription Drug Assistance Program
• Private Health and Disability Insurance Issues
• Social Security Disability Income (SSDI)
• Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
• Unemployment
• Veterans' Benefits

See a five-minute video in American Sign Language (ASL) about benefit specialist services.

Watch a series of six short videos about Medicare in ASL (15-23 minutes each).

Disability Benefit Specialist Program Description 7/21/2011.

Additional Information

• Protect Yourself From Identity Theft and Fraud (PDF)
• The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare
• Social Security Administration
• Do you need to talk to Social Security? Find out how to request a sign language interpreter or other reasonable accommodations from the Social Security Administration.