DDS result or adult handoff is unresolved
Keep benefits, health, housing, and employment moving
Advance Social Security, health transition, housing, and MassAbility while DDS work continues.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Apply for Social Security disability benefitsBefore you start
- SSA medical and work records, health summary and medications, insurance, adult-provider plan, housing goals, disability evidence, income and resources, and employment goals.
Who to contact
Use the official destination above, the DDS Area Office assigned by city or town, the service coordinator, the operating agency, or the exact contact on the controlling notice.
Step by step
- Use SSA's official application route and preserve every notice.
- Build the adult-health transfer package and identify the adult provider, records, consent, insurance, and emergency plan.
- Use the state disability-housing guide to identify CHAMP, voucher, independent-living, or disability-rights routes; keep MassAbility employment work separate.
Expected next
A benefits event, adult-health transfer, housing application or referral, and employment-services event.
Save this proof
Applications, confirmations, notices, health-transfer record, housing contacts, and next dates.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Escalate within the program that owns the stalled action; one program's progress does not resolve another.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Keep benefits, health, housing, and employment moving checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and date started
- Documents supplied
- Confirmation or notice
- Current status
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from MassAbility Career Services, Apply for Social Security disability benefits, Massachusetts health transition toolkit, Housing resources for people with disabilities
Official resources
Limits
Housing waitlists and availability vary; this guide does not promise a voucher, unit, benefit, provider, or job.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.