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It's easy for me and I don't know your situation to say but try not to be so fixated on the $1200/mo. Seems to be that a solid job with Python skills could make

by Neil44 4y ago

It's easy for me and I don't know your situation to say but try not to be so fixated on the $1200/mo. Seems to be that a solid job with Python skills could make the $1200 look small very quickly.

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ptero 4y ago
There is usually a cap on what one can earn while continuing to receive disability. I think the total of disability and other income cannot exceed 60% of pre-disability earnings or something like that.
- Madmallard 4y ago
  That is correct. And if you lose it for that reason, it's very difficult and takes a long time to get back, even if you actually need it to survive.
  - marcus0x62 4y ago
    …Which is the biggest problem with the whole setup. The risk of losing disability and not being able to get it back is too high for most people to even try to re-enter the labor market. The whole thing needs to be redesigned from the ground up.
a_humean 4y ago
I think the risk here is that the nature of the disability is that they might suddenly be unable to continue working or keep up a reasonable pace of work. Many conditions are cyclical - meaning that you could be productive for a period of time, and then suddenly disabled again. It might be very difficult to get back on disability benefits after they go above that limit. This is a common trap with many disability benefit programmes worldwide - they have these inflexible hard numerical limits on earnings that effectively disincentivise people from getting back into work or becoming independent all in the name of fraud prevention. The systems lacks the flexiblity to recongise that people's health and ability to work ebbs and flows. The moment they earn more than 1200 USD they might no longer be considered disabled by the state. The baked in assumption is that not that we should be providing an accessible offramp to independence and a fallback to support if it goes wrong, but that any demonstration of independence should be met with treating your future claims as fraud.
- Madmallard 4y ago
  Hit the nail on the head.

by Neil44 4y ago

It's easy for me and I don't know your situation to say but try not to be so fixated on the $1200/mo. Seems to be that a solid job with Python skills could make the $1200 look small very quickly.

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ptero 4y ago

There is usually a cap on what one can earn while continuing to receive disability. I think the total of disability and other income cannot exceed 60% of pre-disability earnings or something like that.

Madmallard 4y ago
That is correct. And if you lose it for that reason, it's very difficult and takes a long time to get back, even if you actually need it to survive.
- marcus0x62 4y ago
  …Which is the biggest problem with the whole setup. The risk of losing disability and not being able to get it back is too high for most people to even try to re-enter the labor market. The whole thing needs to be redesigned from the ground up.

a_humean 4y ago

I think the risk here is that the nature of the disability is that they might suddenly be unable to continue working or keep up a reasonable pace of work. Many conditions are cyclical - meaning that you could be productive for a period of time, and then suddenly disabled again. It might be very difficult to get back on disability benefits after they go above that limit. This is a common trap with many disability benefit programmes worldwide - they have these inflexible hard numerical limits on earnings that effectively disincentivise people from getting back into work or becoming independent all in the name of fraud prevention. The systems lacks the flexiblity to recongise that people's health and ability to work ebbs and flows. The moment they earn more than 1200 USD they might no longer be considered disabled by the state. The baked in assumption is that not that we should be providing an accessible offramp to independence and a fallback to support if it goes wrong, but that any demonstration of independence should be met with treating your future claims as fraud.

Madmallard 4y ago
Hit the nail on the head.