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November 15-16, 2007
HSC is offering SOAR Training
What is Soar?
SOAR training will increase the number of homeless people who receive SSI and SSDI by ....
- · Encouraging collaboration among key stakeholders
- · Facilitating strategic planning to improve access to SSI/SSDI at the State and community levels
- · Building the capacity of front-line staff to assist homeless people with SSA disability applications
SOAR Facts
- · Only 11% of the homeless currently receive SSI/SSDI benefits
- · Nationally, only 37% of SSA disability applications are approved upon initial submission.
- · Although approvals increase to 53% after appeal, that process can take years.
What is Possible
Through SSI/SSDI outreach and assistance, initial approval rates can soar to 60-95% of applicants without appeals.
Promising Practices
The SOAR training was developed using Promising Practices for SSI Outreach based on interviews with 25 innovative programs around the nation that are working in different ways to expedite SSA disability benefits for people who are homeless.
Homeless Service Coalition Meeting Schedule for 2008
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