Financial Resources

Financial Information

ABLE Accounts
Through ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience), families now have a tax-deferred savings vehicle to save for the care of people with disabilities. 

FINANCIAL PLANNING

Special needs planning resources 

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine “Planning for your Disabled Child”

MEDICAL EXPENSE ASSISTANCE

Champions for Children provides support services for Georgia’s medically fragile and special needs children and their families who do not qualify for TEFRA/Katie Beckett Medicaid Program. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS

Medicaid

The Department of Community Health (DCH) provides Medicaid benefits to eligible children through the TEFRA/Katie Beckett Medicaid program under §134 of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) of 1982 (P.L. 97-248). The following links provide information on these benefits.

http://www.medicaid.georgia.gov/

https://www.p2pga.org/information/

NOW/COMP WAIVERS

New Options Waiver (NOW) and the Comprehensive Supports Waiver Program (COMP) offer home- and community-based services for people with a developmental or intellectual disability who qualify. The links below provide more information:

http://medicaid.georgia.gov/programs/all-programs/waiver-programs

http://www.dch.georgia.gov/sites/dch.georgia.gov/files/NOW_COMP_FY14_Final_1.pdf

SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOLARSHIP

Below is information and rules for the Special Needs Scholarship Program:
www.gadoe.org/External-Affairs-and-Policy/Policy/Pages/Special-Needs-Scholarship-Program.aspx

Special Needs Alliance
This organization helps individuals with disabilities, their families and the professionals who serve them.

Resources found within the Cobb County School District Special Education Parent Mentor website are for informational purposes only.  The resources contained here are not associated with, affliated with or sponsored by the Cobb County School District.  CCSD makes no recommendations about the validity or usefulness of any agencies listed herein.

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