About TakeCharge
Founded in 2000 by Dr. M.J. Willard, a behavioral psychologist with 30 years experience in working with people with disabilities, TakeCharge is designed to support Social Security beneficiaries who want to take charge of their own vocational rehabilitation. TakeCharge seeks clients who have already found a job, or who know they can do so on their own. TakeCharge provides clients with Work Support Payments to help them remain in the workforce once they land that job.
If you earn at least $670 per month from your employment you can receive up to $3,531 in Work Support Payments over a nine month period. If you earn enough from your employment that you actually are able to leave the benefit rolls, you can receive up to $17,739 in Work Support Payments over three years.
Where does TakeCharge obtain the money for Work Support Payments? It comes from the Social Security Administration. If you assign your Ticket to an Employment Network, or EN, and you earn at least $670 per month, then your earnings will trigger payments from the Social Security Administration to the EN that holds your Ticket. If you assign your Ticket to TakeCharge, then we pass 75% of the amount we receive for your Ticket back to you. Just keep in mind that you must earn at least $670 per month to obtain Work Support Payments.
This patented distance-delivered shared-payment model has been very popular with clients. Since 2001 more beneficiaries have assigned their Tickets to TakeCharge than any other EN in the country.