ABLE Account, Special Needs and Pooled Trust Comparison
Categories: Special Needs Financial Planning and Financial Resources
Administering a Special Needs Trust: A Handbook for Trustees
Have you been named as trustee of a special needs trust? Have you created a special needs trust, and wonder what the job of trustee is actually like? Are you a trust beneficiary, trying to figure out what the trustee is permitted — and required — to do? The Special Needs Alliance is pleased to offer its free booklet on administering special needs trusts. In plain English, it can help you understand the choices and obligations.
Categories: Special Needs Financial Planning and Financial Resources
Family-to-Family (F2F) Health Information Center Fact Sheet (English)
In addition to helping families navigate the special education system, ECAC also specializes in helping families navigate health related systems in NC.
Categories: Disability and Health Condition Specific Information, Guardianship and Alternatives, Health Care in Schools, Housing/Independent Living, Medicaid and Medicaid Waivers, Residential Treatment - Crisis Intervention Services, Special Needs Financial Planning and Financial Resources, Social and Recreation, SSI and SSDI, Transition to Adulthood
Living and Working with Disabilities: Tax Benefits and Credits
This publication presents basic information about existing tax credits and benefits that may be available to qualifying taxpayers with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities, and businesses or other entities wishing to accommodate persons with disabilities.
Categories: Special Needs Financial Planning and Financial Resources
Special Needs Trust
A Special Needs Trust is a type of trust. It is for someone with a disability. This type of trust gives people with disabilities income. It lets them have this income while keeping their needs-based public benefits. (This may be Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and/or Medicaid benefits.)
Categories: Special Needs Financial Planning and Financial Resources
