winks it is just legal limbo, I don't know that it had a rational, just a protective nature.

I don't know if an attorney can explain it, but it is something in the system to protect us and maximise our ssdi. Someday soon I ecpect from the talk this opeiton will be gone. Then they calculate how long you need to live off settlement monies bfore the ssdi check sill start. My offset would ahve been three years.
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PS if I missed the real question you needed answered, sorry maybe someone else knows