Work Incentives: Allowable Blind Work Expenses
Work Incentives: Allowable Blind Work Expenses
- Attendant care services which are rendered in the:
- home
- process of assisting an individual in making the trip to and from work; or
- work setting.
- Drugs and medical services which are essential to enable the individual to work (e.g., medication to control epileptic seizures)
- Expendable medical supplies
Examples:- Bandages
- Catheters
- Face masks
- Incontinence pads
- Federal, State and local income taxes and Social Security and Medicare taxes
- Guide Dog
- Fees
Examples:- Licenses
- Professional association dues
- Union dues
- Mandatory contributions
Examples:- Pensions
- Disability
- Meals consumed during work hours
- Medical devices
Examples:- Braces
- Inhalers
- Pacemaker
- Respirator
- Wheelchair
- Nonmedical equipment/services
Examples:- Air cleaners
- Air conditioners
- Child care costs
- Humidifiers
- Portable room heaters
- Posture chairs
- Safety shoes
- Tools used on the job
- Uniforms
- Other work-related equipment/services
Examples:- Job coaching fees
- One-handed typewriters, keyboards, etc.
- Special tools designed to accommodate an individual's impairment
- Telecommunications devices for the deaf
- Translation of materials into Braille
- Typing aids (e.g. page turning devices)
- Vision and sensory aids for the blind
- Physical therapy
- Prosthesis
- Structural modifications to the individual's home to create a work space or to allow the individual to get to and from work.
- Training to use an impairment-related item or an item which is reasonably attributable to work
Examples- Braille
- Cane travel
- Computer program course for a computer operator
- Grammar
- Stenotype instruction for a typist
- Use of one-handed typewriter, keyboard, etc.
- Use of special equipment
- Use of vision and sensory aids for the blind
NOTE: Training does not include general education courses.
- Transportation to and from work
- Vehicle modification