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  • 020978

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  • Published 2005.
  • 67 pages.

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Helping Inmates Obtain Federal Disability Benefits: Serious Medical and Mental Illness, Incarceration, and Federal Disability Entitlement Programs: Field Note. Rev. final report

Publication year: 2005 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: "This report describes the experiences of three sites - state of New York, the city of Philadelphia, and the State of Texas - that help prison or jail inmates prepare and file pre-release applications to initiate or restart Federal disability benefits" (p. 1). Sections comprising this report are: report highlights; introduction; Federal entitlement benefits; benefits strategies for inmates in the three sites; obtaining benefits for severely ill inmates -- lessons from the sites' experience; and final thoughts. Application assistance is just one part, although a very important one, of a comprehensive discharge plan.
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