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Medicaid Insurance for Workers with Disabilities (MIWD)
Medicaid Insurance for Workers with Disabilities (MIWD), referred to by some as Nebraska's Medicaid Buy-In, is intended to allow people with disabilities who are competitively employed and who, because of wages would lose their benefits, to purchase Medicaid like private insurance.

1619(a) and 1619(b)
1619(a) allows SSI recipients to continue receiving SSI cash payments even when earnings exceed the SGA level ($1,000/month for non-blind and $1,640/month for blind - 2011). As earnings increase, SSI cash payments decrease until earnings completely replace cash benefits; there is no effect on Medicaid coverage...

Personal Assistance Services
Personal Assistance Services (PAS) are those defined under Nebraska Medicaid rules and regulations that include a range of assistance provided to persons with disabilities and chronic conditions of all ages. It includes a range of services, provided by one or more persons, designed to assist an individual with a disability to perform daily activities on and off the job that the individual would typically perform if the individual did not have a disability. For more information, go to...

Medicare Part D on Answers4Families.org
Have questions about Medicare Part D?  Find out more at www.answers4families.org.

Medicare Information
Medicare is our country’s health insurance program for people age 65 or older. Certain people younger than age 65 can qualify for Medicare, too, including those who have disabilities and those who have permanent kidney failure or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease). The program helps with the cost of health care, but it does not cover all medical expenses or the cost of most long-term care.

Medicaid
Medicaid is a jointly funded, Federal-State health insurance program for low-income and needy people. It covers children, the aged, blind, and/or disabled and other people who are eligible to receive federally assisted income maintenance payments. In Nebraska the Department of Health and Human Services use the same rules to decide eligibility for Medicaid as SSA uses for SSI, but requires the completion of a separate application.