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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Feb 4, 20215 min read
Employer Subsidy Helps to Maintain SSI/SSDI Eligibility
As Americans, we are obsessed with dieting and counting food related indicators like calories, sugars, carbs, trans-fats or, for those...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 21, 20215 min read
Learn How Earning Will Impact Your SSI and SSDI Benefits
Our family recently re-watched the first of three movies of the series: The Hobbit (directed by Peter Jackson, 2012) in order to...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 12, 20215 min read
What Goes into an Individual Work Plan Through the Ticket to Work?
With the shortage of activities due to COVID, my family and I have been playing more board games. Pictionary by Mattel has resurfaced...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jan 8, 20214 min read
New Year's Resolution: Use My Ticket to Work
In a Berkeley Mews comic, the main character is making a list of New Year’s resolutions. He writes the list title and the first item: 1....
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Dec 18, 20204 min read
Working Enough to Obtain Disability Benefits But Not Too Much to Lose Them.
Most things in life require constant balance. We all know it is good to exercise, but if we take too long at the gym, we will eat into...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Dec 9, 20205 min read
The Do's and Don't's of Being a Rep Payee
As a financial planner, I regret to admit that my kids are pretty nonchalant about managing their allowance. But since they are too young...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Nov 11, 20204 min read
Transition is More Successful with Careful, Advance Planning
My family members and I are chicken “newbs”. The chicks we bought, last February, and raised in our TV room are full-grown laying hens...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 26, 20205 min read
Should Youth with Disabilities Apply for Social Security at Age 18?
I went back to re-watch the first five seasons of “Schitt’s Creek”, when I realized, somewhat belatedly, that Season 6 had been released....
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 27, 20203 min read
How Murphy's Law Applies to Government Benefits
In keeping with the general atmosphere of 2020, I was researching the origin of Murphy’s Law on a coffee break between clients. We are...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 15, 20204 min read
How about "abilities foremost" language?
Last week, my husband and I had lunch with three of our friends, Anna, Franz and their adult daughter, Erika. Erika happens to have Down...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Aug 26, 20204 min read
Happy Birthday to You--Your Benefits Came Through!
When you are a kid, you cannot wait to celebrate your next birthday. Besides the party and the cake and, of course, the presents, you...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Aug 20, 20204 min read
People with Disabilities are Not Perpetual Children
Three social media posts caught my eye, this past week. The first was an article about opposition to the decision of a café that employs...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jul 20, 20205 min read
Why Work Is Important on Multiple Fronts
Last week, my sons’ summer program was not in session. While I enjoyed spending time with my boys—among other things like re-learning how...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jul 3, 20205 min read
Why You Want to Apply for Every Benefit for Which You May Be Eligible
With very little public areas of any kind open in Illinois, besides our many delightful forest preserves, my son and his summer program...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jun 25, 20205 min read
Study Your Vision to See What You Need to Actualize It
Because my son’s summer program is so small, it is (thankfully) in regular session, despite the fact that Illinois is only partially...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jun 15, 20205 min read
When Life Planning Seems a Tangle of Competing Priorities
A couple of weeks ago, I took my son and a friend of his to a local forest preserve—that being one of the few things open during the...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jun 3, 20205 min read
Saying Something, Even When It's Not Enough
My son was about to have his first in-person, life parkour practice in months. There would be only 10 kids. They would work out in the...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 28, 20206 min read
Innovative Options for Housing, Community and Support
My son needs a lot of coaching to complete a project, assigned to him by someone else—say a teacher. But he has 150% focus and puts in...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 21, 20205 min read
How Medicaid Waivers Can Pay for Daily Life Supports
A listserve on which I participate featured a recent exchange among some parents of adults with intellectual and developmental...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 12, 20205 min read
ESG Investing: Can You Do Well While Doing Good?
“They say you cannot have your cake and eat it too…but ain’t that what ya supposed to do?” (Anonymous) A number of my clients with...
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