Put Your Ticket to Work for You!
ERI PLUS is an Employment Network under the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work Program.
ERI PLUS supports workers with disabilities (Ticket holders) to maintain long-term employment and confidently leave Social Security benefits.
Stay Informed and Get Ongoing Support
If you have found employment (on your own or through Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services), we can help you manage your changing benefits issues and provide financial assistance to help you move forward in your employment goals.
To assign your Ticket to ERI PLUS you must be:
- employed with a goal to end your Social Security cash benefits.
- eligible for SSDI or SSI payments (even if you currently do not receive a payment).
- able to meet earnings requirements.
- Benefits planning and assistance to help manage changing benefit and health insurance issues.
- Career and employment counseling to help address barriers and explore or advance employment opportunities.
- Financial assistance to help with job-related expenses or debt (such as student loans or car payments) to those who meet specific employment goals and program requirements.
- Connections to a variety of employment and disability related resources
Ticket to Work Articles
Social Security Highlights Rob’s Ticket to Work Story
Sometimes by reading about the struggles of others and how they learned to face health challenges and achieve goals, provides …
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Meet Faith: A Story About Getting Back to Work After Illness
What resources and supports are available to a person receiving social security disability benefits when wishing to return to work? …
Partnership Plus: A New Way of Connecting Social Security, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Networks
ERI has worked several years toward the idea that Employment Networks (ENs) and state Vocational Rehabilitation agencies (VRs) could partner …
Meet Ernest: A Ticket to Work Story
Ernest has found it difficult in the past to maintain employment due to his mental health issues. He feels that …
Ticket to Work Resources
Benefits Resources
- Access Wisconsin – Benefits Eligibility Website
- Disability Rights Wisconsin
- FoodShare Wisconsin Handbook
- Job Accommodation Network
- Medicare.gov
- POMS – Program Operations Manual – Social Security Administration
- Social Security Administration
- Social Security Administration – Benefits Eligibility Screen Tool
- Social Security Administration – Ticket to Work FAQs
- Wisconsin BadgerCare + Eligibility Handbook
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services
- Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
- Wisconsin Medicaid Eligibility Handbook.