Comments on: Approved Claimant Returns to Work – Are there any Defenses to a Continuing Disability Review or Termination Action by SSA

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:51:45 +0000

SS counts your gross total by the month it was received, not earned. But what I discovered that really made me angry is if you get paid more often than once a month there will be a few times a year your income will go over & it will be deducted no matter how low your income was the month(s) before. Hubby gets paid weekly so in Dec. he had 5 paychecks. Thus everything over $759. was deducted from MY ssi check at 50 cents for every extra dollar.At the end of the year he was well below the threshhold of what he could make yearly before it affected my ssi BUT they don’t give me the ssi they took.Once upon a time they gauged it by the 3 month average. But not anymore. The ticket to work thing might help you for awhile but I don’t think it will if you’ve already started working.Sorry.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:22:20 +0000

I just started working a month ago for a residential care facility for the elderly. Our pay periods are every other friday. Our pay period begins on a sunday and ends 2 weeks later on a saturday. My question is this, I am afraid that because I started part way thru Sept and received that check in Oct that I will bring home more than 1,000 in October even though it was earned in Sept. I will be earning less than 1,000 a month but it is possible to get paid 1000 or more in a month. Please help me!

By: steve

steve — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:54:49 +0000

Hello i was layed of my job due to my diability, I was let go and they told me i should be getting unimployment pay but now i got aproved for ssdi can you get both? im worried but im still not able to work. please help me.
thanks steve

By: todd glassman

todd glassman — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:55:39 +0000

@james gauntt: hi james,part of a persons responsibility while collecting disibility benefits is to continue to prove to the social security that you are still disabled by continuing to go to your doctor and takeing medication.if you can't prove to social security that you are still disabled by not haveing been to see a doctor in awhile for your disabling condition then this proves to them that you are no longer disabled and that your ssdi benefits could stop.

By: james gauntt

james gauntt — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:58:11 +0000

been collecting disability for ptsd since 2006 and hadnt beeen under doctors care and am up for review filled out long form and sent back my condition hasnt improved and has gotten worse what are chances my checks will stop really worried here and scared can u please email me answer soon

By: Jas Wilder

Jas Wilder — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:58:37 +0000

I’ve been on SSDI since 1992 with HIV. No CDR until 2002, which was followed by start of full medical review. After I completed medical review forms (still in 2002), I received letter from local soc. sec. office apologizing for putting me through all those forms… stating they had just learned people determined disabled with HIV after 1991 are not subject to CDR’s and medical reviews. The letter said I would not be receiving any more reviews. Nine years later, and living in a different state the past 7, still no CDR’s. I’m 57 now with 18 years on SSDI with HIV/AIDS. Is the policy they informed me of in 2002 still in effect? I’m worried because I just obtained a copy of my medical record. Despite there’s plenty of medical documentation as to my continued disability, an inept VA social worker I saw for therapy (and quit seeing a year ago because I experienced his behavior & tactics in session as unprofessional, inattentive, and questionably prejudicial) recorded multiple times in his notes that I was working part time when i was in fact volunteering. In one session’s notes he stated I was “working full time for under the table money while still collecting SSDI”. These statements are blatantly untrue, but I already lost a life insurance disability benefit because of his notations, and I’m scared to death I could lose my SSDI if they review and see his notes. I’m working toward requesting a correction to my VA medical records, but am not optimistic. It’s his word against mine. The stress of this revelation the past few weeks is so extreme, my health, which has been half way decent the last couple years, is already in a downhill slide. If my record isn’t amended, can I deny social security access to those specific notes? I saw a local legal aid attorney, but he wasn’t much help other than to tell me to request amendment to my medical record.

By: Morris Kamelgarn

Morris Kamelgarn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:18:53 +0000

Jonathan,
Here I am with my funny name again. I know I’ve written to you before, but something new has come up. I was granted SSDI after an appeal in 2004, and have worked on and off since then. I have repaid about $10,000 in overpayments, and am currently repaying $18,000 more. My question is this: My EPE ended in June of this year, and the same month I took a 6-month contract programming job. I know that if I want continued benefits I have to apply for reinstatement. If I do so, do you know whether the decision will be made on the basic of my health (which has not improved), or on my work history since 2004, or both? Thank you again for your time.

By: shirley callowaay

shirley callowaay — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:23:01 +0000

I was getting a ssI check and it was terminated do to my work incame and now I have a child who is sick he have seizures thay what pay my child do to my income and his dad income my son who need help. he ant but two year old what do I need to do about this please help on this