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SSDI "Ticket to Work"

deleted_user
deleted_user
I just got my "ticket to Wrok" postcard. Who here has looked into the program?

what do you know about it?

Has is helped anyone?

What options are there?

How has it been bad for your SSDI?

how has it been good for your SSDI?

What do you know?
deleted_user
deleted_user
I got that once, but never used it. I was very nervous about it because you get 9 months and then you lose your disability. I was afraid that after 9 months things might go downhill for me. Then What?
deleted_user
deleted_user
That's good to know, jstreet. But you get 9 months for/to do what?
tommymott
tommymott
You'd get 9 months to work without it affecting your claim. Back when I was on SSDI in the early 80's it was 6 months and I did quite well working 4 or 5 months then notifying SSI that I was no longer working. You gotta do what you gotta do!
deleted_user
deleted_user
They let you try working for 9 months on a job. If youa re doing well, (they interview your employer), you keep the job and lose your benefit. The problem is, it is so hard to get SSD, and takes so long, that if things don't work out later, you have to start all over again. Plus, you have to proove that you can not work at all, and they know for a fact that you did it for 9 months.
I didn't try it. I'll keep what I have now. It's not much, but I am too unstable to take the risk. It took me 18 months and a lawyer to get it as it was. Rainbow
deleted_user
deleted_user
I agree with the other poster that after nine months I wouldn't be ready to go off SSDI, so I ignored it. Personally I am worried I won't get health benefits this good if I go off of SSDI.
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