Benefits Planning for Veterans
Overview
For those with a WIP-C™ credential, this course examines Veterans’ concerns around work, benefits, and health care. You’ll learn how work impacts VA Disability Compensation and Disability Pension and how those benefits affect Social Security disability benefits. The course also covers Survivors Benefits.
Prerequisites - WIP-C™ credential or CWIC Certification
Course Duration - This course is 5 webinars spread over 2 weeks.
Next Cohort - November 4 - November 18, 2025 | MWF 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET
Course Outcomes
- Earn a credential in work incentive planning for Veterans.
- Understand how work impacts benefits offered by the VA.
- Learn how VA benefits interact with other disability benefits.
Course Outline
Learn to counsel Veterans with disabilities about returning to work, as you earn Cornell’s Vet-C credential.
You’ll learn about
- Disability benefits offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- How VA benefits and SSA benefits impact each other
- What happens to VA benefits when Veterans return to work
- Tools to verify VA benefits
- Counseling Veterans about the benefits of work and how to leverage VA benefits to support work
- Outreach to organizations serving Veterans
Prerequisite: Either an up-to-date WIP-C credential from Cornell University or CWIC certification from Virginia Commonwealth University. The class will be limited to 35 participants.
WISC Policies & FAQs
Our courses are intended to be taken live, and the entirety of the course cannot be taken via recordings. For the 17-session Work Incentives Planning for Benefit Practitioners, you can miss up to three sessions. You may call in and attend via phone; attending by phone does not count toward missed sessions. You must let us know if you are attending by phone only or if you are attending with a co-worker and you are not the person logged into the webinar.
For our five-session courses:
A maximum of 3 lessons are allowed to be missed to receive a Certification of Completion or to participate in the Credentialing Exam. Because of the format of a 5-Day training, each day will have 3-4 lessons. Therefore, missing 1 full day of a 5-day training may disqualify your participation in the credentialing exam.
These courses do have requirements: You need a computer that can connect to the internet with a modern web browser, the capability to display PDF documents, and related audio gear so you can hear and possibly speak during webinars. Our PDFs work well on-screen, but if you want paper copies of course materials, your computer must be able to download and print PDFs.
Work Incentives Planning for Benefit Practitioners has no prerequisites.
For Benefits Planning for Veterans and Benefits Planning for Transition-Age Youth, a prerequisite is having a WIP-C™ credential—those who have earned this credential have taken the Work Incentives Planning for Benefit Practitioners course, passed the exam, and received a passing grade on the case file project.
When you register, during checkout, select the Invoice Me option. You will receive an email with your invoice from Cornell University's ILR School, which you can forward to your employer for payment.
We work carefully to provide an accessible manual and slide PDFs. Webinar presentations have closed captions. Other accommodations may be available. Please reach out for specifics.
The link for the first webinar will be emailed to your registration email no later than the morning of the first session. Please keep an eye on your spam/junk folder.
Yes! The WIP-C series is capped at 125 participants per semester. The Veterans, Youth, and Leadership courses are capped at 35 participants per semester.
Contact Email Address: ytionline@cornell.edu Contact Phone Number: 607-255-7727
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