This is a particularly tough question. I previously wrote about how earning more than the Substantial Gainful Activity amount may cause your benefits to be stopped in Social Security Disability Insurance cases.
In SSI cases, I just learned that you can earn more than the SGA amount and still keep your SSI benefits.
WARNING: I do not pretend to be a understand [...]
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How much can I earn and keep my SSI?
How Social Security reviews cases: the 5 step sequential evaluation process
I have written about how Social Security defines disability, work, and a substantial gainful activity.
But, how does Social Security really evaluate a case?
Social Security reviews cases using the five-step sequential evaluation process to decide is a person is disabled. Here are the 5 questions that make up the sequential evaluation process:
Does your impairment keep you [...]
How do unemployment benefits affect a Social Security disability claim?
How do unemployment insurance benefits affect a claim for Social Security disability benefits?
Receiving unemployment benefits can be a problem if you have a claim for Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) because you are making two inconsistent statements:
To get unemployment benefits, you are claiming that you are able to work, but [...]
Can I work and still receive Social Security disability or SSI benefits?
Updated 06/05/09.
Can a person work and still receive Social Security disability benefits or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits?
The answer is a qualified “yes.”
Social Security wants people to try to go back to work. But, the regulations surrounding keeping your benefits while you try to go back to work make it tricky.
Are you engaged in a Substantial [...]
Trial work period and Social Security disability benefits
Social Security encourages you to try to go back to work to see if you can do it. A Trial Work Period (TWP) lets you work and still be considered disabled by Social Security.
A beneficiary receiving Social Security disability benefits may test his or her ability to work and still be considered disabled. We do not consider [...]
Should I work while waiting for my Social Security hearing?
The long wait for a Social Security hearing is a massive financial drain for most people. With no money coming in, or just minimal state aid, a lot of people wonder how to pay for rent, utilities, and groceries.
A number of my clients have asked me if they can try to get a job.
Attorney Jonathan Ginsberg [...]
Vocational Expert Voodoo
I was recently asked the following:
I had my hearing today. The judge had a vocational rep come in to testify. He said I had two job options.
… I live in a small town that probably does not offer the two jobs the vocational expert said I could do.
Can the judge deny me for being able to [...]
What if your doctor does not believe in you?
Your doctor’s opinion of your disability is critical evidence in your Social Security disability case. If your doctor does not believe in you, you and your lawyer are facing an uphill battle.
Chances are, Social Security either sent you to one of their doctors for a consultative examination, or had your medical records reviewed by a [...]
What if I am earning more than the Substantial Gainful Activity amount?
A number of people responded to my prior post about “substantial gainful activity” amounts. To briefly review: the general rule is that you cannot earn more than the substantial gainful activity amounts to be found disabled.
What do I do if I am earning more than the substantial gainful activity amount? Does than [...]
Does Social Security consider all work a Substantial Gainful Activity?
Social Security defines disability as the inability to engage in a “substantial gainful activity” (SGA).
A simplified way of putting this is to say that in order to be found disabled, you have to show that you are unable to work. BUT, this can be misleading. Not all work qualifies as a substantial gainful activity.
So, how [...]
How Social Security considers your ability to work in a disability case
Under Social Security regulations, disability is the inability to engage in a “substantial gainful activity.” This means that to win a Social Security disability case, you have to show that your impairments prevent you from being able to work.
More specifically, you have to show that you are unable to perform the duties of any work [...]
Social Security basics: what is a “disability?”
In order to qualify for disability benefits under Social Security you have to be found disabled.
Well, thank you Captain Obvious.
Ok. But, what does it mean to be disabled? Is it enough to have a medical impairment? Is the diagnosis, itself, enough?
In short, no.
Under Social Security regulations, it is not enough to have [...]
