Webinar: Accessing Public Benefits, a National Perspective, with Attorney Stephen Dale

Written By Jill Escher, President

This webinar took place on Thursday, August 13, 2020

Stephen W. Dale, Esq., LL.M, is a dedicated disability rights advocate and principal attorney of the Dale Law Firm, P.C., based in California. The firm is dedicated to assisting individuals with disabilities with estate and special needs planning. This webinar covers the basics of both needs-based programs (SSI, Medicaid, SNAP) as well as entitlement programs (SSDI, Child Disability Benefits, Medicare). Steve also discusses how wage, unearned income, and resources effect medical benefits and continuing entitlement to Social Security benefits and/or eligibility for the SSI program. COVID related issues and Q&A were included.

Watch the recording on the NCSA YouTube channel here.

Jill Escher, President

Jill Escher is president of the National Council on Severe Autism and the mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism. Through the Escher Fund for Autism she promotes and funds research on the genetic toxicology of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, and she has served on the governing council of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society, where she co-chairs its Germ Cell and Heritable Effects special interest group. She was president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2019 and, through her family business, Claradon Properties, provides housing to adults with developmental disabilities in the Bay Area. See more of her work at jillescher.com.

https://www.jillescher.com/
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