Benefits Navigation & Disability Support — Nationwide

If you’re trying to make sense of disability benefits, Medicaid, medical leave, or work rules — and the answers you’re getting don’t line up — you’re not alone.

These systems are complex, fragmented, and often contradictory. Many people are forced to make high-stakes decisions about work, income, or healthcare without clear information or meaningful support.

Lantern & Rune exists to help you slow the process down, understand your options, and move forward with clarity.

Who I Help

I work with individuals across the U.S. who are navigating:

  • Disability benefits such as SSDI

  • Medicaid eligibility, renewals, and coverage changes

  • Medical leave, workplace protections, and accommodations

  • Transitions between illness, disability, and work

  • Situations where income, benefits, and healthcare rules overlap

Many of the people I work with are dealing with:

  • chronic illness or disability

  • inconsistent or incorrect information from agencies

  • fear of losing coverage if they work or earn more

  • pressure to make decisions before they fully understand the consequences

If the system feels overwhelming, opaque, or unforgiving — that’s not a personal failure. It’s a structural one.

How I Can Help

My work focuses on benefits navigation and decision support, not legal representation or clinical advice.

Depending on your situation, that may include:

  • Explaining how programs like SSDI or Medicaid actually work in practice

  • Helping you understand eligibility rules, income limits, and reporting requirements

  • Walking through work or income changes and how they may affect benefits

  • Clarifying medical leave options and workplace protections

  • Helping you prepare questions, documentation, or next steps

  • Talking through tradeoffs so decisions are informed, not reactive

The goal is not to rush you toward an outcome — it’s to help you understand the system well enough to choose your path with confidence.

What Working Together Looks Like

I offer one-on-one sessions focused on your specific situation.

Our work is:

  • Individualized — no scripts, no assumptions

  • Plain-language — no jargon unless you want it

  • Grounded in real systems — not best-case scenarios

  • Supportive, not prescriptive — you remain in control

Many clients come to me after trying to navigate on their own, after receiving conflicting information, or after being told “that’s just how it is.”

Often, it isn’t.

About Me

I’m Zee, founder of Lantern & Rune.

I bring together professional experience in benefits and HR with lived experience navigating illness, disability, and public benefit systems. My work centers on equity in practice — making sure systems meant to support people are understandable and usable in real life.

You can read more about my background and approach here.

Next Steps

If you think this kind of support would be helpful, or you’re not sure where to start, you’re welcome to reach out.

📩 Email: zee@lanternandruneconsulting.com
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