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Recommendation: Increased PASS Possibilities

You currently have a PASS. It allows you to at least partially recover the money you are spending or setting aside for training, equipment, transportation, or other expenses that help you move toward a goal which will make you more financially self-supporting.

You can increase your recoverable expenditures or set-aside amount if doing so would further help you move toward that goal (or a new, perhaps more ambitious, goal). To increase the amount of your SSI benefit in order to at least partially recover your increased expenditures, you would have to amend your PASS (or write a new PASS) to include your increased expenses or set-asides.

NOTE: Your PASS amount can not be greater than the income that you have available. Your available income does not include your SSI Cash Benefit, but does include earnings, other unearned income, income deemed from your spouse, income deemed from your parents, and in-kind support (if that support is figured using the Presumed Maximum Value (PMV) rule). It does not include income already designated as an IRWE used to raise your benefit amount or as a Blind Work Expense (BWE).

NOTE: Your PASS must end when you achieve your occupational goal.

"WHAT-IF?" STEPS

1.        Create a New Situation.

2.        Choose the column containing the recommendation as the column on which to base the new situation. (The new column will contain the same answers as the chosen column until you make changes.)

3.        Go to the top of the new column and enter a situation label such as "Increased PASS" if you wish.

4.        Scroll down to the Work Expenses or Employability Investment section and enter the amount(s) you would like to spend or save to become more self-supporting. Refer to "Text Results" recommendation for the highest total amount of work expenses and employability investments which you can at least partially recover in this situation.

ALSO NOTE: You may enter an amount higher than the amount recommended – if that is what you want and are able to spend or save – but the extra amount cannot be recovered through your SSI benefit. (The recommended amount raises your SSI check to the maximum for your situation.) If, however, you have other benefits such as housing subsidies or food stamps, then including the full amount may cause those benefits to be higher. Check with the applicable agencies.

5.        Scroll down to the Work Incentive Information section and enter the total amount of work expenses and employability investments as a PASS.

6.        Review the results and compare them to the previous results (without the employability investments and PASS).

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