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Something for those who are disabled and collect Social Security Disability (aka green check) or Social Security Income (gold check) and is pretty much mostly y
by egberts1 2y ago
Something for those who are disabled and collect Social Security Disability (aka green check) or Social Security Income (gold check) and is pretty much mostly young and pre-retirement-age disabled folks: if your income goes over half of what you take in from Social Security, your eligibility will be "threaten" and re-evaluation WILL occur, often with reducing benefits until you earn twice what SSA gives you.
So, if the job doesn't pan out, you are going to be in a rather severe financial bind for quite a awhile until those re-applied benefit(s) restarts for you.
Hence, many disabled are looking for work that do not pay more than $800-1200/month (USD) ... just to avoid their re-evaluation trigger.
- ksaun 2y agoI don't know about SSI, but this isn't accurate for SSDI. For SSDI, if your earned income is more than $1110 in a month (for 2024), then you consume one of your 9 trial work months. That $1110 threshold is regardless of your SSDI payment amount and it is adjusted annually. The trial work months are to allow disabled persons to attempt to return to the workforce without risking losing their social security benefits if it proves unsustainable for them. (The specifics are a little more complicated than what I've described.)
- navjack27 2y agoSSI = Supplemental Security Income
- hansvm 2y agoI think that's the point. Supplementing up to a given minimum has counterintuitive incentives, causing the program to pay more in aggregate than if it had looser caps (and linear scaling) and let more people work and earn slightly higher incomes by reaping the benefits of the program.