The WISC team has three faculty members that provide fee for service training and technical assistance for the Work Incentives Practitioners Credential (WIP-C). This course allows students to gain the knowledge and tools required to provide benefits counseling to people who receive disability benefits want to re-enter the workforce. The course covers all federal public benefit programs that are utilized by people with disabilities to transition back to the workforce. These public benefit programs include Social Security, Veterans benefits, Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, TANF and many others. 

Our mission is to empower working people with disabilities by teaching benefits counseling strategies that promote work preparation, attachment, and advancement, allows informed choice, and increases the worker’s financial well-being.

The WISC team will be creating a new course on the topic of self-employment. The assignment will help us support the course work by conducting research and gathering data about the gig economy and self-employment for individuals with disabilities.