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Accessible Assets: Bringing Together the Disability and Asset-Building Communities
People with disabilities have lower employment rates, lower savings rates, and higher costs of living than people without disabilities. Most asset-building programs do not consider the needs of people with disabilities. Asset limits are particularly onerous. Advocates need to ensure that people with disabilities are availing of programs tailored to them—the earned income tax credit (EITC), Assistive Technology Act alternative financing programs, and individual development accounts (IDA). Legislation to eliminate restrictions on the use of federally funded IDAs and create a new type of savings account will also ensure that asset building is doable by everyone.
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- Accessible Assets Webinar Archive
Arlene Mayerson, Disability Rights Law: Roots, Present Challenges, and Future Collaborations (Sept.-Oct. 2007)
James W. Speer, Protecting Disability Benefits from Creditors (Sept.-Oct. 2007)
Kevin Liebkemann and Raymond Cebula, Interplay Among Unemployment Insurance, Welfare, Social Security Disability, and SSI Benefits (Sept.-Oct. 2007)
Dory Rand and Brian Clappier, Getting By or Getting Ahead? Public Policies to Help the Poor Build and Protect Assets (Nov.-Dec. 2008)
Dory Rand and Stephanie Holmes, Children's Development Accounts Promote Inclusive Prosperity (Nov.-Dec. 2007)
Claudia Center and Brian East, The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and Employment: Practical Strategies (July-Aug. 2009)
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