Statement of Priorities

PRIORITY SEVEN (continued):

D. EMPLOYMENT

1. Represent persons denied or incurring delays in receiving appropriate vocational rehabilitation, employment network, or independent living services.
2. Represent persons in efforts to obtain appropriate Social Security Administration work incentives.
3. Represent persons denied reasonable accommodations in employment when those accommodations are necessary to maintain or advance in employment, and represent Social Security beneficiaries who are otherwise discriminated against in employment.
4. Represent Social Security beneficiaries concerning work-related Social Security Administration matters or other issues that constitute a barrier to employment.
5. Represent Social Security beneficiaries whose employers are acting as representative payees and misusing benefits.

E. HOUSING AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES

1. Represent persons who remain in hospitals or other restrictive environments due to a shortage of appropriate community alternatives.
2. Represent persons denied home-and community-based services due to the state’s determination of ineligibility based on nature or severity of disability or to lack of resources when such denial significantly impacts the person’s liberty or autonomy.
3. Represent persons denied reasonable accommodations, or otherwise discriminated against, in housing.

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