Summit Independent Living Center would like to thank Coldstone Creamery for donations and other efforts benefiting our organization. Your support has gone towards making Montana a better place! And look forward to: Give LOCAL Missoula - May 6, Community Tap Night - May 13, 6-9 P.M.
If you are receiving Medicaid Personal Assistance Services (PAS) you have probably already received a letter from your personal assistance services provider letting you know that your PAS services would be transitioning over into a new program called the Community First Choice Option (CFC). You do have the option of remaining on the traditional PAS [...]
Looking to improve your community? Look no further than our Montana Centers for Independent Living statewide task forces! After some re-organizing at our last symposium, the task force groups and some of their goals are as follows: Community Living Task Force (formerly Housing Task Force) • Educate local communities and community leaders on benefits and [...]
Flathead County Social Security Orientation - First Friday of each month, 9:00 and Third Friday, 1:00 YODA Youth Group - Second Monday each month, 4:00 - 6:00 Parent Support Group - Third Monday of each month, 6:00 Men’s Discussion Group - Third Monday each month, 6:30 The Summit Medical Fitness Center, Conference Room #2 205 [...]
The Missoula branch of Youth Opening Doors through Advocacy (YODA) has decided to implement a reward program for members who engage in various activities including: assisting YODA, performing community service, completing classes, or finding employment. This program, which started in November, allows members to receive “YODA Bucks” that they can trade toward things like social [...]
Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries will receive a 1.5 percent COLA increase for 2014. Other important changes SSI Federal Payment Standard: Individual $721/mo. Couple $1,082/mo. SSI Student Exclusion: Monthly limit $1,750 Annual limit $7,060 Social Security Disability Thresholds: Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Non-Blind $1,070/mo. Blind $1,800/mo. Trial Work Period (TWP) $770/mo. Receive [...]
Reforms Health Insurance Practices • Eliminates pre-existing condition exclusions • Bans annual and lifetime limits • Ends insurance companies retroactively denying coverage • Improves the appeals process when a person is denied coverage of a treatment or service • Requires that at least 80% of health insurance premium dollars are paying for health care • [...]
Carrie Dyrud SDPAS Assistant Carrie works in the Missoula Self-Direct Department with Betsy and Nicole, helping out with paperwork, mailings and so forth. She also works part time at a local law firm. Carrie is into music and plays the piano. She also has a pug called Al, who we imagine moonlights as Chevy Chase. [...]
The Department of Transportation is exploring the creation of a national, exchangeable ADA Universal Identification card. This card would allow people who are eligible for Paratransit to travel to other areas within the United States and receive Paratransit services in that area without filling out a separate request form for that area. To learn more, [...]
Low impact exercises are controlled movements generally when you keep one foot on the floor. As the name suggests, low impact exercise is a type of exercise where the amount of stress placed upon the joints of your knees, hips and ankles is relatively minimal. These exercises are ideal for many people, including those with [...]