I don't know for sure, but my hope is that you are a tad pessimistic with the view that they start re-evaluating you the second you get your first paycheck.

The way I believe (and hope) it works is that once your hours and income increase enough to be considered SGA AND you continue to be able to work at that rate for several months, THEN they SHOULD start looking at whether you are no longer totally disabled. The system is SUPPOSED to protect you while you attempt to do SGA, IF your medical condition(s) have shown an improvement, to make sure that you really can tolerate working. If you give it your best efforts and find you can't manage it and quit/get let go because of your limitations, that failed work attempt helps confirm that you do meet the standard for disability and not being able to sustain SGA.

I'm not sure what would happen if you were able to go back to work/do SGA ONLY because of extenuating circumstances with an employer who went overboard to accommadate your disability. For instance....If you went back to work for a few years because you had a boss who let you clock in for 40 hours even though he let you lay down whenever you needed to, but then that business closed and you couldn't find a similarly 'cushy' position, I would be concerned about convincing SSDI that you still really are disabled. Documentation from that employer and your doctors SHOULD help with that. If I could find an employer who could meet all of my accommadations, I'd sure give it a shot !

I would think about factors like why you had to stop working at your last job. Where you having an acute crisis then that is now a more stable, but chronic condition ? Where the hours too much for you ? Where the physical aspects of the job too much for you ? Are you qualified to do jobs that would not require physical exertion ? What are your current daily activities (meaning can you get showered,dressed, and drive/get transportation out for several hours/several times per week ?) ? Does your doctor, who may have just documentated that you cannot work AT ALL think that it is safe for you to attempt to return to work, even part time, right mow ?

If I thought I might be able to go back to work part time, I'd practice trying to do it. Maybe by volunteering regularly or possibly even just by getting out everyday and sitting in the library reading a book to see how many hours I could be attentive and confortable. When I was confident with that, THEN I would start checking the want ads to see if there was anything I thought I could do.

Remember it is possible to work part time long term on SSDI as long as the work isn't SGA. At some point I would imagine someone at SSDI would look at your record to question if you can work a cushy little part time job, why couldn't you work MORE. Remember with that that all of us are going to get reviewed every few years too. We all need to keep justifying our SSDI claims with documention about our conditions and limitations.

Keep us posted. That could be a great story of hope for many of us here to know if someone is successfully making baby steps in the working world again.