PASS Success Story

The Plan for Acheiving Self Support (PASS) program has been a part of SSI for years. Under PASS, an SSI recipient is able to receive extra income and to amass resources without penalty in order to fulfill a plan to achieve self support. The limitations inherent in SSI -- it is very hard to get on SSI and most recipients are quite sick, desperately poor and have limited educational attainments -- as well as strict limitations upon the use of the PASS program have made PASS nothing more than an empty promise for most SSI recipients. But there are occasional success stories and here is one from Florida, where a woman has used PASS to start a real estate services company.