Are you currently losing your earnings to Residential Offsets? There have been important changes in the Employed Persons with Disabilities (EPD) Program, Oregon’s Medicaid buy-in program. The program will provide new opportunities to people with developmental disabilities to keep their earnings and not lose their Medicaid benefits.

As of January 2008, the Employed Persons with Disabilities (EPD) program’s definition of “attached to the workforce” was repealed and changed to a definition of “employed”. This change was made in order to comply with federal law.

Clients are now considered “employed” under EPD if they work and file Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) or Self-Employment Contribution Act (SECA) payments.

As of March 1, 2008 there is a new Employed Persons with Disabilities (EPD) payment structure.

•  EPD clients will now pay a “participant fee” based on their income.
• The participant fee will be determined using the EPD client’s combined countable earned and unearned income.  

 This is a complex area of the law.  Click here [1] for more information.