Disability Benefits Advocacy Sample Clauses

Disability Benefits Advocacy. CONTRACTOR shall provide disability benefits advocacy services to complete the entire application process for disability income benefit programs, including individuals who need assistance with monitoring progress of a submitted benefits application. These services shall be provided at no cost to participants and shall include but not be limited to screening, assessing, developing and filing competently prepared benefit applications, appeals, reconsiderations, reinstatements, and recertifications; coordinating with federal and state offices regarding pending benefit applications, appeals, reconsiderations, reinstatements, and recertifications and advocating on behalf of the participant; gather required documentation, provide timely submission of benefits claims, and document the timeframe needed for reconsideration documents. CONTRACTOR shall also provide the following: a. CONTRACTOR shall designate SOAR-certified staff as Benefits Specialists to assist HDAP eligible participants in the Central Service Planning Area with the entire disability benefits application process using the SOAR method. b. CONTRACTOR’S designated SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists shall assist PROGRAM participants with gathering documentation, preparing and filing, and provide follow-up services until approval or final denial. c. CONTRACTOR shall seek legal advocacy at no expense to the participant for highly intensive advocacy services, such as an appeals process, when appropriate. d. CONTRACTOR’S SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists will participate in the COUNTY’S SOAR system. e. CONTRACTOR’S SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists shall provide oversight to all benefits applications, as well as serve as liaison between CONTRACTOR and COUNTY staff for PROGRAM related updates, as needed. f. CONTRACTOR shall track outcomes using HMIS and SOAR’s Online Application Tracking (OAT) System.
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Disability Benefits Advocacy. Process for conducting screenings, assessments, preparing and filing disability applications, gathering required documentation, timely submission of benefits claims, and timeframe needed for reconsideration documents. This includes a specific program design, oversight and quality assurance processes for benefit applications, follow-up, and approval rates. Benefit programs include: 1. Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled (SSI/SSP) 2. Federal Social Security Disability Insurance Program (SSDI) 3. Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) 4. Veteran benefits provided under federal law, including but not limited to, disability compensation and veteran pension 5. Any other available disability benefits programs not identified above that an individual may be eligible to receive, such as retirement and/or survivors’ benefits. 6. CONTRACTOR shall seek out any and all entitlement benefits the participant may be eligible to receive, even if that results in ineligibility for disability benefits.
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Disability Benefits Advocacy. Process for conducting screenings, assessments, for benefit applications, follow-up, and approval rates. Benefit programs include: 1. Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled (SSI/SSP) 2. Federal Social Security Disability Insurance Program (SSDI) 3. Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI)
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Disability Benefits Advocacy. CONTRACTOR shall provide disability benefits the following: a. CONTRACTOR shall designate SOAR-certified staff as Benefits Specialists to assist HDAP eligible participants in the South Service Planning Area with the entire disability benefits application process using the SOAR method.
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Disability Benefits Advocacy. CONTRACTOR shall provide disability benefits advocacy services to complete the entire application process for disability income benefit programs, including individuals who need assistance with monitoring progress of a submitted benefits application. These services shall be provided at no cost to participants and shall include but not be limited to screening, assessing, developing and filing competently prepared benefit applications, appeals, reconsiderations, reinstatements, and recertifications; coordinating with Federal and State offices regarding pending benefit applications, appeals, reconsiderations, reinstatements, and recertifications and advocating on behalf of the participant; gather required documentation, provide timely submission of benefits claims, and document the timeframe needed for reconsideration documents. CONTRACTOR shall also provide the following: County of Orange, Health Care Agency File Folder: C025969 Page 8 of 10 Contract MA-042-20010813 1. CONTRACTOR shall designate SOAR-certified staff as Benefits Specialists to assist HDAP eligible participants in the South Service Planning Area with the entire disability benefits application process using the SOAR method.
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Disability Benefits Advocacy. CONTRACTOR shall provide disability benefits advocacy services to complete the entire application process for disability income benefit programs, including individuals who need assistance with monitoring progress of a submitted benefits application. These services shall be provided at no cost to participants and shall include but not be limited to screening, assessing, 1. CONTRACTOR shall designate SOAR-certified staff as Benefits Specialists to assist HDAP eligible participants in the North Service Planning Area with the entire disability benefits application process using the SOAR method. 2. CONTRACTOR’S designated SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists shall assist PROGRAM participants with gathering documentation, preparing and filing, and provide follow-up services until approval or final denial. 3. CONTRACTOR shall seek legal advocacy at no expense to the participant for highly intensive advocacy services, such as an appeals process, when appropriate. 4. CONTRACTOR’S SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists will participate in the COUNTY’S SOAR system. 5. CONTRACTOR’S SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists shall provide oversight to all benefits applications, as well as serve as liaison between CONTRACTOR and COUNTY staff for PROGRAM related updates, as needed. 6. CONTRACTOR shall track outcomes using HMIS and SOAR’s Online Application Tracking (OAT) System.
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Disability Benefits Advocacy. CONTRACTOR shall provide disability benefits advocacy services to complete the entire application process for disability income benefit programs, including individuals who need assistance with monitoring progress of a submitted benefits application. These services shall be provided at no cost to participants and shall include but not be limited to screening, assessing, developing and filing competently prepared benefit applications, appeals, reconsiderations, reinstatements, and recertifications; coordinating with Federal and State offices regarding pending benefit applications, appeals, reconsiderations, reinstatements, and recertifications and advocating on behalf of the participant; gather required documentation, provide timely submission of benefits claims, and document the timeframe needed for reconsideration documents. CONTRACTOR shall also provide the following: 1. CONTRACTOR shall designate SOAR-certified staff as Benefits Specialists to assist HDAP eligible participants in the South Service Planning Area with the entire disability benefits application process using the SOAR method. County of Orange, Health Care Agency File Folder: C025968 Page 11 of 16 Contract MA-042-20010815 2. CONTRACTOR’S designated SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists shall assist PROGRAM participants with gathering documentation, preparing and filing, and provide follow-up services until approval or final denial. 3. CONTRACTOR shall seek legal advocacy at no expense to the participant for highly intensive advocacy services, such as an appeals process, when appropriate. 4. CONTRACTOR’S SOAR-certified Benefits Specialists will participate in the COUNTY’S SOAR system. 5. CONTRACTOR’S SOAR-certified Benefits Specialist shall provide oversight to all benefits applications, as well as serve as liaison between CONTRACTOR and COUNTY staff for PROGRAM related updates, as needed. 6. CONTRACTOR shall track outcomes using HMIS and SOAR’s Online Application Tracking System.
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Disability Benefits Advocacy. Contractor shall include seeking any and all disability benefits the participant may be eligible to receive as appropriate, including Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Social Security Retirement or Disability Compensation benefits, and the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI). It shall also include filing complete and timely applications and appeals, obtaining and submitting medical evidence, filing appeals and requests for hearings, including appeals to the Social Security Appeals Counsel, representing individuals at administrative hearings, establishing good working relationships with the Social Security Administration and Disability Determination Services (DDS), and contracting with legal services providers as needed to ensure adequate representation. HDAP Services for Families shall not be interrupted pending an administrative hearing decision. a) Contractor SSI and SSDI benefits advocacy services shall adhere to the Social Security Administration guidelines, 20 CFR §§ 404.1740, 20 CFR §§ 416.1540 - Rules of Conduct and standards of responsibility for representatives. b) Contractor shall coordinate and collaborate with legal aid organizations to assist with initial applications and appeals, as well as ensure representation by attorneys in appeals hearings through a formal partnership with a legal entity. c) Contractor shall have specific design, oversight, and quality assurance processes for benefit applications, follow-up and approval rates related to any and all entitlement benefits the participants may be eligible to receive, even if it results in ineligibility for disability benefits.
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Related to Disability Benefits Advocacy

  • Disability Benefits Technology Errors and Omissions Not less than $1,000,000 each claim Not less than $2,000,000 in aggregate At the time of the first transaction with an Authorized User and updated in accordance with Contract Crime Insurance Not less than $50,000 Commercial General Liability Not less than $5,000,000 each occurrence Updated in accordance with Contract General Aggregate $2,000,000 Products – Completed Operations Aggregate $2,000,000 Personal and Advertising Injury $1,000,000 Business Automobile Liability Insurance Not less than $5,000,000 each occurrence

  • Disability Benefit If the Executive terminates employment due to Disability prior to Normal Retirement Age, the Company shall pay to the Executive the benefit described in this Section 2.3 in lieu of any other benefit under this Agreement.

  • Long Term Disability Benefits A benefit level of seventy percent (70%) of monthly earnings shall apply. Benefits would commence after a waiting period of seventeen (17) weeks, when Short Term Disability Benefits terminate. Terms of the Master Policy with the Insurance Company shall apply. In order to go on LTD, the person must: (a) Be off work for seventeen (17) consecutive weeks with the same or unrelated illness or injury. (b) Be off work for a total of seventeen (17) weeks with the same illness or injury providing that the return to work was less than twenty (20) consecutive days.

  • Long Term Disability Benefit In the event an employee, while covered under this Plan, becomes totally disabled as a result of an accident or a sickness, then, after the employee has been totally disabled for seven (7) months, including periods approved in Sections 1.3(a) and (c), he/she shall be eligible to receive a monthly benefit as follows: (a) while the employee has a time bank balance to be used on a day-for-day basis, full monthly earnings will continue until the time bank is exhausted, and Section 2.6 will not apply; (b) effective March 1, 2001, when an employee has no time bank, or after it is exhausted, the employee shall receive a monthly benefit equal to the sum of: (1) seventy-five percent (75%) of monthly earnings; (2) annual cost-of-living adjustment of the benefit equal to the consumer price index to a maximum of two percent (2%); (3) for the purpose of the above, earnings shall mean basic monthly earnings of the employee's classification. The date of disability for determining the commencement of the first two (2) years of disability shall be the day following the last month of the Short Term Plan period, or an equivalent seven (7) month period. (c) The Long Term Disability benefit payment will be made as long as an employee remains totally disabled in accordance with Section 2.3, and will cease on the date the employee recovers, or at the end of the month in which the employee reaches age sixty-five (65), or resigns or dies, whichever occurs first. (d) An employee in receipt of long term disability benefits will be considered an employee for purposes of pension and will continue to be covered by group life, extended health, dental and medical plans. Employees will not be covered by any other portion of a collective agreement but will retain the right of access to rehabilitative employment as per Article 12.1 and will retain seniority rights should they return to employment within six (6) months following cessation of benefits. (e) When an employee is in receipt of the benefit described in (b) above, contributions required for benefit plans in (d) above and contributions for pension plan will be waived by the Employer. (f) An employee engaged in rehabilitative employment with the Employer and who is receiving partial Long Term Disability benefit payments will have contributions required for benefit plans in (d) above and contributions for pension waived by the Employer, except that pension contributions shall be deducted from any salary received from the Employer to cover the period of rehabilitative employment.

  • Other Employment Benefits During the Employment Term, the Executive shall be entitled to the following employment benefits: (a) four (4) weeks of paid vacation in each fiscal year of EDGEN while the Executive is employed hereunder (one week of which, if not used by the Executive in any given fiscal year, may be carried over to the next fiscal year; provided, that the Executive shall not have more than five (5) weeks of paid vacation in any given fiscal year as a result of such carry over), and sick leave in accordance with EDGEN’s policies from time to time in effect for executive officers of EDGEN; provided, that, except as provided herein, vacation and/or sick leave time not used in any year may not be carried over or transferred from one year to another or converted to cash, except in a year in which there is a Change of Control (as hereinafter defined) where the Executive is no longer employed; (b) participation, subject to qualification requirements, in medical, life or other insurance or hospitalization plans and long-term disability policies which are presently in effect or hereinafter instituted by EDGEN and applicable to its executive officers generally; (c) participation, subject to classification requirements and continued maintenance thereof by EDGEN in other Executive benefit plans, such as pension and profit sharing plans, which are from time to time applicable to EDGEN’s executive officers generally; (d) an automobile allowance of $1,200 per month, which shall be used by the Executive to cover all lease and insurance payments with respect to one automobile of the Executive’s choice for business purposes, which automobile’s retail value shall not exceed $75,000. The Executive shall provide proof of insurance in limits and with a company approved by EDGEN. EDGEN shall also be listed as a “named insured” under the policy. EDGEN shall reimburse the Executive, upon the presentation of appropriate receipts, for all reasonable and necessary maintenance, repair and gasoline costs incurred by the Executive in connection with the use of such automobile; provided, that such costs are directly related to the performance by the Executive of his obligations to EDGEN and/or to Parent hereunder; (e) EDGEN shall purchase (subject to the insurability of the Executive at standard rates) a life insurance policy in the amount of $1,000,000 on the life of the Executive to provide benefits under Section 5.2 (b) hereof; and (f) a supplemental payment of $9500 per annum (the “Supplemental Payment”), which shall be paid in accordance with EDGEN’s customary payroll practices which are in effect from time to time during the Employment Term.

  • Employment Benefits In addition to the Salary payable to the Executive hereunder, the Executive shall be entitled to the following benefits:

  • Short Term Disability Benefits The Board shall provide short-term disability benefits as set forth in the short term disability summary plan description. 1. Rate of Benefits and Waiting Period Short term disability benefits for disabilities resulting from non-occupational illness or injury, shall be paid at the rate of 70% of the employee’s regular rate subject to all applicable deductions. Following the exhaustion of temporary leave, there is a five (5) day waiting period before short term disability benefits begin. The five (5) day waiting period will be waived for absences greater than thirty (30) consecutive calendar days and short term disability payments shall be paid retroactively. (See also Temporary Leave.)

  • Application for Benefits Requests for short-term leaves shall be in writing, upon the appropriate form prescribed and provided by the District, and shall be filed with the unit member's supervisor and the appropriate manager five (5) days in advance of the intended leave (except in emergency situations), unless otherwise stated by the provisions of the specific leave.

  • Denial of Benefits Subject to prior notification and consultation, a Party may deny the benefits of this Chapter to: (a) investors of the other Party where the investment is being made by a enterprise that is owned or controlled by persons of a third State and the enterprise has no substantive business activities in the territory of the other Party; or (b) investors of the other Party where the investment is being made by a enterprise that is owned or controlled by persons of the denying Party.

  • Retirement Benefits Due to either investment or employment during the marriage, either the Husband or Wife: (check one)

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