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How to Apply for In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) & Protective Supervision – 2025

Learn how to apply to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) in this video. IHSS is a California-only benefit for those who qualify.

How to Apply for Supplemental Security Income – 2025

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal assistance program designed to help elderly people or those with disabilities. Learn how to apply.

Creating a Practical Housing Plan for Your Loved One with a Disability

If you're wondering how to make the family home a home for your loved one with a disability after the parents are gone, this webinar is for you

What We Need to Know: SSI, SSDI, Medi-Cal, Medicare

What we need to know about SSI, SSDI, Medi-Cal, and Medicare can be overwhelming and confusing. Learn more in this video.

How to Ensure My Loved One Is Taken Care of After I’m Gone

Learn about how to protect your disabled adults’ assets and public benefits when you’re no longer around to do it.

What are SSI and SSDI with DAC? More than a bunch of letters …

Learn how and why to secure public benefits like Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance for your loved one with a disability.

Applying for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) – 2018

THIS VIDEO IS FROM 2018. CLICK THROUGH FOR A LINK TO THE 2025 UPDATED VERSION.

Creating a Successful Social Security Disability Application

Come learn about the two SSA programs for individuals with disabilities and how to successfully complete the SSA application for the appropriate program.

Applying for In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) – 2018

THIS VIDEO IS FROM 2018 AND CONTAINS OUTDATED INFORMATION. CLICK THROUGH TO WATCH THE 2025 VERSION.

IHSS Services and Assessment

By CaSocialService
In this video, you will get an overview of the IHSS assessment and service authorization processes. This video will also demonstrate the important experience an...

Shift from SSI to SSA’s Disabled Adult Child (DAC) Program

Learn to shift from SSI to SSA’s Disabled Adult Child (DAC) program and eligibility, requirements and benefits.

How to Avoid the Most Common SSI Application Pitfalls

Come learn about SSI versus SSDI and how to successfully provide SSA with what it needs to approve an application for public benefits.

IHSS Overview and Q&A with Public Benefits Consultant

This is an overview of IHSS and how your child or young adult may be eligible.

How Does My Retirement Affect Benefits for my Child with Disabilities?

Learn about the impact of parental retirement, death, or disability on the Social Security benefits for their child with a disability.

How Work Can Affect Supplemental Security Income Benefits

Come learn how SSI/SSDI recipients can preserve benefits when employed.

How to Make SSI Work for You: Simply Said

By PACER Center for Partners for Youth, a Minnesota Disability Employment Initiative
This youth- and family-friendly video focuses on how to find help available to youth and young adults with disabilities after they leave high school.

IHSS Protective Supervision | Episode 1 | “Advocates Are Not Cheap!”

By IHSS Advocates
"IHSS Protective Supervision: A Tutorial Series from an Advocate's Perspective" is a series that discusses IHSS Protective Supervision topics from the perspecti...

Paghahanda para sa Proseso ng Kahilingan (Applying for SSI/Tagalog)

Paliwanag ng proseso upang matagumpay na mag-aplay Supplemental Security Income sa Estados Unidos.

申請家務協助服務 (Applying for IHSS/Chinese)

學習關於如何在加州順利的申請家務協助服務。

主題：社會安全補助金 (Applying for SSI/Chinese)

學習關於如何在美國順利的申請社會安全補助金。 Learn about the process to successfully apply for Supplemental Security Income in the United ...

SSA Electronic Wage Reporting Options

By U.S. Social Security Administration
Learn ways to electronically submit your wages to the Social Security Administration.

Paghahanda para sa Pagsusuri (Applying for IHSS/Tagalog)

Mga dapat malamang paraan para makapag-aplay ng In-Home Support Services (IHSS) sa California.

Disabled Adult Child & Social Security Benefits

Learn about benefits from the Social Security Administration, before and after your retirement, for your adult child with a disability.

EQUITY Video Series: Working and Keeping Benefits

By World Institute on Disability
Learn ways people with disabilities can work and save money while still keeping the benefits they need.

EQUITY Video Series: Retirement

By World Institute on Disability
This EQUITY Video offers bulletproof retirement strategies that people with disabilities can employ right now to improve economic self-sufficiency