Michael Dalto has delivered training and technical assistance on SSI, Social Security Disability, other public benefits and related work incentives for over 30 years. He created state benefits planning certification in Maryland, where he trained, certified and technically assisted over 50 benefits planners. He consulted with the Institute for Community Inclusion of the University of Massachusetts Boston on the SGA Project, a research effort that tested interventions to support vocational rehabilitation consumers in Kentucky and Minnesota to work their way off Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. He has written training materials about benefits, including a module on federal housing assistance programs for the WIPA & Community Partner Work Incentives Counseling Training Manual, produced by Virginia Commonwealth University’s National Training and Data Center and used to train and provide certification for benefits planners nationwide. He has helped create tiered benefits planning models in Michigan, Missouri, New York and California. He has integrated direct service into his work, providing benefits planning to VR consumers and blind food vendors. He currently consults with Griffin-Hammis Associates and the National Association of Blind Merchants.

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Benefits and Work Made Simple