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Medicaid Buy-In for Working Adults with Disabilities

Did you know that you can keep your Medicaid benefits and work a full-time job?  A lot of people don’t.  Colorado has a program that will let you do just that – The Colorado Medicaid Buy-In for Working Adults with Disabilities.

Submitted by Julie Reiskin, Executive Director of the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, January 16, 2018

Did you know that you can keep your Medicaid benefits and work a full-time job?  A lot of people don’t.  Colorado has a program that will let you do just that – The Colorado Medicaid Buy-In for Working Adults with Disabilities. Are you ready to learn more? Keep on reading!

Photograph of Kevin Williams, CCDC Legal Program Director sitting at his desk working on a legal brief.
Kevin Williams, CCDC Legal Program Director

 

The expectation for most adults is to be a member of the American workforce. However, a significant barrier to people with disabilities integrating into the workforce is the impact increased income has on benefit eligibility. Knowing that traditional employer-provided health insurance will not work, the choice for an individual was to work and lose benefits or not work and keep benefits. The Medicaid Buy-in program removes the need to make such a decision. Continue reading “Medicaid Buy-In for Working Adults with Disabilities”