Disability and Public Benefits: SSI, SSDI, SDI

LGBT Elders: Know Your Rights

How to navigate issues with public and social benefits systems.

Appeal Your Social Security Disability Claim

Request online a review of their decision.

Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST)

BEST helps you find out if you could get benefits that Social Security administers.

Check If You Can Get Popular Benefits in California

Interactive tool to help connect individuals to information about different state benefits available including disaster relief.

Disability Rights California - Publications

Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Benefit Programs: Introduction to SDI, SSI, and SSDI

Social Security Disability Benefits

The Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.

SSI/SSDI for Prisoners

The application process and how incarceration affects your benefits.

Working While Disabled

Social Security work incentives at a glance. How your earnings affect your Social Security benefits.

Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST)

BEST helps you find out if you could get benefits that Social Security administers.

Disability Rights California - Publications

Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Benefit Programs: Introduction to SDI, SSI, and SSDI

SSI/SSDI for Prisoners

The application process and how incarceration affects your benefits.

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits

How to apply for SSI and how to appeal rejection.

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) For Noncitizens

Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Resources

Understanding SSI Expedited Payments

Payments are quicker for presumptive disability (PD) or presumptive blindness (PB).

California's Disability Insurance: A Video in ASL

American Sign Language (ASL) with English Captioning.

California State Disability Insurance (SDI): FAQs

The State of California administers the State Disability Insurance program, commonly referred to as SDI. It is a public disability insurance program that pays a benefit every other week.

Disability Rights California - Publications

Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.

Eligibility for State Disability Insurance- FAQs

Details about SDI major eligibility requirements.

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Benefit Programs: Introduction to SDI, SSI, and SSDI

State Disability Insurance Information

New Numbers for Domestic Violence Victims

Sometimes, the best way to evade an abuser and reduce the risk of further violence may be to relocate and establish a new identity. Following these changes, getting a new Social Security number may also be helpful.

Working While Disabled

Social Security work incentives at a glance. How your earnings affect your Social Security benefits.

Check If You Can Get Popular Benefits in California

Interactive tool to help connect individuals to information about different state benefits available including disaster relief.

PILP Public Benefits Advocate's Guides

Advocate's Guides to the Housing and Disability Advocacy Program, CalWORKs Homeless Assistance, and CalWORKs Housing Support Program (HDAP, HA, and HSP). The guides including program information, practical tips, and client fliers to improve access to and awareness of these programs.

PILP Public Benefits Advocate's Guides

Advocate's Guides to the Housing and Disability Advocacy Program, CalWORKs Homeless Assistance, and CalWORKs Housing Support Program (HDAP, HA, and HSP). The guides including program information, practical tips, and client fliers to improve access to and awareness of these programs.

A Guide to Going to Court

Going to Court

Information for Fee Waiver

Ask for a Fee Waiver if you can't afford filing fees

Disability Rights California - Publications

Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.

LGBT Elders: Know Your Rights

How to navigate issues with public and social benefits systems.

PILP Public Benefits Advocate's Guides

Advocate's Guides to the Housing and Disability Advocacy Program, CalWORKs Homeless Assistance, and CalWORKs Housing Support Program (HDAP, HA, and HSP). The guides including program information, practical tips, and client fliers to improve access to and awareness of these programs.

Appeal Your Social Security Disability Claim

Request online a review of their decision.

Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST)

BEST helps you find out if you could get benefits that Social Security administers.

Check If You Can Get Popular Benefits in California

Interactive tool to help connect individuals to information about different state benefits available including disaster relief.

California State Disability Insurance (SDI): FAQs

The State of California administers the State Disability Insurance program, commonly referred to as SDI. It is a public disability insurance program that pays a benefit every other week.

Disability Rights California - Publications

Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.

New Numbers for Domestic Violence Victims

Sometimes, the best way to evade an abuser and reduce the risk of further violence may be to relocate and establish a new identity. Following these changes, getting a new Social Security number may also be helpful.

SSDI Overpayments

This pamphlet, available in English and Spanish, describes SSDI Overpayments and the appeal and waiver processes.

Working While Disabled

Social Security work incentives at a glance. How your earnings affect your Social Security benefits.

New Numbers for Domestic Violence Victims

Sometimes, the best way to evade an abuser and reduce the risk of further violence may be to relocate and establish a new identity. Following these changes, getting a new Social Security number may also be helpful.

Appeal Your Social Security Disability Claim

Request online a review of their decision.

Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST)

BEST helps you find out if you could get benefits that Social Security administers.

California's Disability Insurance: A Video in ASL

American Sign Language (ASL) with English Captioning.

California State Disability Insurance (SDI): FAQs

The State of California administers the State Disability Insurance program, commonly referred to as SDI. It is a public disability insurance program that pays a benefit every other week.

Check If You Can Get Popular Benefits in California

Interactive tool to help connect individuals to information about different state benefits available including disaster relief.

Disability Rights California - Publications

Browse through the statewide disability rights advocacy organization's publications, which cover many areas of the law.

Eligibility for State Disability Insurance- FAQs

Details about SDI major eligibility requirements.

Information for Fee Waiver

Ask for a Fee Waiver if you can't afford filing fees

LGBT Elders: Know Your Rights

How to navigate issues with public and social benefits systems.

New Numbers for Domestic Violence Victims

Sometimes, the best way to evade an abuser and reduce the risk of further violence may be to relocate and establish a new identity. Following these changes, getting a new Social Security number may also be helpful.

PILP Public Benefits Advocate's Guides

Advocate's Guides to the Housing and Disability Advocacy Program, CalWORKs Homeless Assistance, and CalWORKs Housing Support Program (HDAP, HA, and HSP). The guides including program information, practical tips, and client fliers to improve access to and awareness of these programs.

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Benefit Programs: Introduction to SDI, SSI, and SSDI

Social Security Disability Benefits

The Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.

SSDI Overpayments

This pamphlet, available in English and Spanish, describes SSDI Overpayments and the appeal and waiver processes.

SSI/SSDI for Prisoners

The application process and how incarceration affects your benefits.

State Disability Insurance Information

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits

How to apply for SSI and how to appeal rejection.

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) For Noncitizens

Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Resources

Understanding SSI Expedited Payments

Payments are quicker for presumptive disability (PD) or presumptive blindness (PB).

Working While Disabled

Social Security work incentives at a glance. How your earnings affect your Social Security benefits.