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Originally Posted by Jim0918
My friend was disabled out from work and got a settlement from workmans comp as well as disability pension from the employer. He was a firefighter. How does this impact his filing for SSDI? Are there any issues of paying back any money? He is done with them and is hesitant to file because he does not want the trouble he went through with the workmans comp and the city he worked for.
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The worker's comp will affect the SSDI. The disability pension from his employer probably not. If he wants a 'trouble free' life with no worries or stress he probably should not file an SSDI claim and just wait until age 62 to get reduced retirement Social Security or age 66 for full Social Security. Then all he has to prove is age. Of course, depending upon his current age and lifetime earnings, the years that he does not work will be averaged with the years he did work and the zero years will reduce what he could get from retirement benefits. But then it would be trouble free.
If he wants a guarantee that he will be approved, he should not file a claim. There is no such guarantee. Qualifying for a fire fighter pension is quite a bit easier than qualifying for SSDI. He has to prove both that he can no longer be a fire fighter but that he is also physically and mentally incapable of doing a simple, entry level, sedentary job like a telemarketer.