ABLE Accounts (they are not “Trusts”) are coming to Florida July 1, 2016. ABLE United is Florida’s ABLE program and will start taking participants July 1. ABLE accounts can be very helpful and powerful tools for certain individuals with disabilities. Remember, to use an ABLE account the disability has to have occurred prior to age…
Florida ABLE (to be called ABLE United) is scheduled to launch in June, 2016. A lot has occurred since we last posted on this subject earlier in the year. We have Policy adopted by Social Security in the form of a new POM, SI 01130.70. We have the point person for ABLE in Florida, Will…
We just had our annual update on Friday from Ken Brown and Eric Skidmore from the Social Security Administration at the Stetson SNT conference. I posted earlier on some of the topics discussed. The implementation of the ABLE Act was a big topic for discussion. Florida has begun moving with ABLE, Inc. Florida is now awaiting…