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Originally Posted by Krackerjacks
I'm curious about this program. I have recently been determined eligible for SSDI. I have a heart condition however; I'm only 55 years old. I have noticed a decrease in my strength and my eyesight has gotten worse in the last few months. Nevertheless, I still think I could work part time if the job wasn't too strenuous.
My concern is this: Although SS doesn't want to come out and say it, it appears that their goal is to get you off SS benefits with this program. My impression is that their "incentive" is that they'll work with you for a period of time but your entire disability status changes the second you receive your first paycheck. They'll allow you to collect benefits up to a point, then they will re-decide your claim to determine if you're disabled enough to collect further benefits and if you've been able to hold down fairly steady employment, you run the risk of losing it all. I assume you'd need a doctor's assessment and it would go back into the process of predetermining your claim.
Is this a fair assessment?
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you are 100% correct kracker-jacks..social security states that the ticket to work program is there to help people who are on ssdi to return to work.however,this can work against a person in many ways and i know several people off-hand hand who lost their benefits and who regreted ever doing the ticket to work program.one must keep in mind that in order to qualify for ssdi benefits a person condition must be severe enough to keep them from working any job.testing one's ability to work for lets say a month or 2 then they stop because their health won't let them continue working isn't the issue here.it's when a person who is collecting ssdi works for maybe several month's out and beyond that social security will see this as a person not being that severly disabled to the point that it keeps them from working they will stop benefits.even if a person works lets say part-time and below the SGA guidlines social security will use any work you do against you.so the bottom line here is that i would recommend to anyone considering doing the "ticket to work program" to think twice about it or risk loosing your benefits..when you loose your benefits because of work and you appeal the decision and go before the judge,the judge has no sympothy for people who can work since there are so many people who are trying to get on ssdi and can't do any work of any kind because of their health problems.this happened to me..