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Recommended Changes to the Employment Network (EN) Payment Process for Self-Employed Ticket-Holders - March 2010
For many Ticket holders, self-employment provides the greatest opportunity to achieve self-sufficiency given their conditions for employment. As a result, a number of ENs have taken Tickets and established an employment plan for beneficiaries pursuing a self-employment goal. Given the unique differences in how self-employment income is verified by SSA, in comparison to wage employment, ENs have found they must wait longer for payments. This serves as a disadvantage to existing ENs, and dissuades providers with self-employment expertise from pursuing the option of operating as an EN and offering services to Ticket holders. To address this issue, in the fall of 2009 SSA convened a work group, comprised of ENs and other stakeholders, to identify alternative approaches for how SSA could handle payment requests for ENs serving self-employed beneficiaries. The attached paper summarizes the recommendations of that work group. SSA has already started implementing the pilot program outlined in the paper, as well as the additional recommendations provided.
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