State of NJ Minimum Wage Increases to $11/hr.

NJ Div. of Disability Services (DDS) NJ Disability Resources Publication now available in Spanish.

Proposed Readoption of Community Care Waiting List Procedures with Amendments

Social Security announces 1.6 percent benefit increase for 2020. See attached documents.

Vendor Billing Through Public Partnerships: Changes and Guidance

The Division’s transition to a Fiscal/Employer Agent (F/EA) model of self-directed services, with Public Partnerships serving as the fiscal intermediary, introduced individuals, families and community vendors to an new billing process for vendor services. Together, the Division and Public Partnerships have identified areas of the billing process in need of improvement. Written guidance has been developed to notify individuals/families and vendors about a newly-developed Request for Payment form, as well as billing process requirements already in place but perhaps not clearly understood.

Hello and welcome to the blog for Disability Services & Advocacy, LLC. (DS&A). We are a support coordination agency in New Jersey that is dedicated to empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We work together with the individual and their family as a team. Our focus is to improve the lives of people with disabilities by assisting them in navigating the social service system and securing services through the NJ Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) and other agencies that support people with disabilities. Our internal team brings together a DS&A Support Coordinator (SC), SC Manager and Supervisor to support every participant and their family. This also includes working as a team with the individual’s circle of support and the organizations that support them.