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Work Incentive Planning & Assistance (WIPA)

IMAGINE STAFF:

  • SANDY HARDY-SMITH
  • Chief Operating Officer

WIPA:

  • STACEY LEVRETS
  • Senior Community Work Incentive Counselor (CWIC)
  • CELESTE PEREZ CONTRERAS
  • Community Work Incentive Counselor (CWIC)
  • KELLY HEWITT-HAMM
  • Community Work Incentive Counselor (CWIC)

Through a five-year cooperative agreement (2021-2026) with Social Security, Imagine Enterprises covers 53 counties in Central and West Texas:

Bosque, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Childress, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Cottle, Dallas, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Fisher, Foard, Hamilton, Hardeman, Haskell, Hemphill, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Jones, Kent, Kimble, King, Knox, Lampasas, Lipscomb, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Mills, Nolan, Palo Pinto, Parker, Runnels, San Saba, Scurry, Shackelford, Somervell, Stephens, Stonewall, Tarrant, Taylor, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Wheeler, Wise, and Young.

The goal of the WIPA program is to enable beneficiaries with disabilities to make informed choices about work, and to support working beneficiaries to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.

Each WIPA project has Community Work Incentives Coordinators who will:

  • provide in-depth counseling about benefits and the effect of work on those benefits;
  • conduct outreach efforts to beneficiaries of SSI and SSDI (and their families) who are potentially eligible to participate in Federal or State work incentives programs; and
  • work in cooperation with Federal, State, and private agencies and nonprofit organizations that serve disabled SSI and SSDI beneficiaries.

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