Money Confidence for your Best Years: Retirement Planning, Savings & Benefits Made Simple
This course is made especially for Deaf and Hard of Hearing senior citizens who want to understand money, make smart choices, and feel confident about retirement.
Each module will focus on a different part of financial literacy. Inside each module, you’ll find easy-to-follow lessons, key vocabulary, big ideas, real-life examples, and short quizzes to help you review what you’ve learned. This program is intended to supplement the CSD Learns course, Money Confidence for your Best Years: Retirement Planning, Savings & Benefits Made Simple. Resources from our partner, Charles Schwab, will help you see how these lessons work in real life.
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Empowering the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community with ABLE Accounts
CSD Learns hosted a webinar on February 22, 2023, with National Association of State Treasurers (NAST) focused on introducing ABLE accounts and how it benefits the deaf and hard of hearing community. This webinar was hosted in part of the partnership announcement between CSD Learns and NAST earlier in the month on the creation of a webcast video explaining ABLE accounts in American Sign Language.
What are ABLE accounts?
Created by the federal government in 2014, ABLE accounts are tax-advantaged savings accounts that allow individuals with disabilities to save for qualified disability expenses without affecting their eligibility for government benefits. Funds in an ABLE account are tax-free and can be used for a variety of expenses related to the individual’s disability.
How to Qualify and Get an ABLE Account
Individuals must have a disability that occurred before the age of 26 to be eligible for an ABLE account. It must be a long term disability and in addition, one of the following criteria must be met:
(1) you are eligible to receive SSI or SSDI;
(2) you have a condition on the SSA’s List of Compassionate Allowances Conditions;
When ready, choose a state program and open an account through the program’s website. To get started, go to NAST’s website and choose your state for the next steps. Sign up for an ABLE Account today
