Thanks everyone for their response! It appears ALASKA MIKE maybe on to something and my dates got mixed up. When my wife applied for SSDI she hadn't worked or received any moneys for 8 months. She listed her onset date, her last day she appeared at work but not before her employer payed her 6 months short term disability pay in which she was terminated afterward, 8 months later she applied for SSDI. I thought it was earlier but it wasn't. The confusion is the short term disability pay. SS needs us to show that it was in fact short term disability pay not hours worked. This I'm working on now and having success so far. And I will admit I was very confused for a couple of days.