The point of Ticket to Work is to help the disabled go back to work to get off the disability rolls. But if you are using the Ticket and trying to work and your CDR is scheduled to begin, it is deferred. But you could be ceased later.

It is not true that everyone who ever works gets medically ceased. A person who has a spinal cord injury or who is deaf (two obvious types) who goes to work does not have medical improvement so they are not medically ceased. But for some people, being able to go back to work and sustain a job does show medical improvement for some types of disabilities, especially mental problems. That is also obvious to me. Not saying that it may be a struggle to go to work for people with disabilities, but people can get better with appropriate medical care. Holding a job may not show sufficient medical improvement to be ceased, but maybe it will. There are no definitive answers, no crystal ball that will tell you in advance what will happen.

Hoosier Daddy's lawyer gave him anecdotal evidence and lawyers' clients are the ones who are dissatisfied with SSA's decisions. So his view is skewed. It may be correct though for a group of people. The SSDI recipients who do go to work and are not ceased wouldn't retain a lawyer. Same with most posters here.