Working While Disabled Quiz

The Trial Work Period is available to BOTH SSDI and SSI beneficiaries

The Trial Work Period

If a person who receives SSDI has their benefits stopped because of substantial earnings after the Trial Work Period has been used, she or she has five months to ask Social Security to ask to restart their benefits if the beneficiary is unable to keep working because of his/her condition.

Work Expenses related to the person’s disability

Social Security requires the beneficiary to report their earnings

Social Security does not “count” some of the earnings of a student with disabilities who attends school or regularly attends a training program who is under the age of 22 up to

PASS stands for Plan to Achieve Self-Support

You assist a person who receives SSI to obtain a job earning $1000.00/month in gross wages. How much would their SSI be reduced?

A person who receives SSI is not required to report their earnings as the IRS will report them to Social Security.

In general, a person who receives SSI will continue to receive Medicaid coverage even after their earnings are so high they are no longer eligible to receive an SSI cash payment until their income reaches a certain level which varies by state.

SSI stands for Social Security Income.

In 2022, for a person on SSDI, earnings over $1,350 gross/month ($2,260 if the person is blind) are considered “substantial”