Your favorable decision should include language about whether or not this is a Supplemental Security Income claim (SSI) or Disability Insurance Benefits (SSDI). It should state whether or not you meet the earnings requirement and when you meet it.

The decision has to be legally defensible if you were to choose to appeal it so the language has to meet a legal standard, like any contract. It can't be written at an 8th grade level like your local newspaper.

If this is an SSI claim, you will be contacted by your local office to do an update interview and you will need to provide evidence of all income you have received since you applied, bank statements and other documents to prove the value of your resources, and proof of your living arrangements. If you have made verbal loan agreements with anyone, you should put that agreement in writing. If you have not made any loan agreement, then there is nothing to put in writing. You would have made some statements about this at the time you filed an SSI claim, but since SSI is a public assistance program, the non-medical factors have to be verified for the past and into the future for as long as you get SSI.

If this is only an SSDI claim, then all that has to be verified is the amount of any worker's comp or public disability benefits. SSDI is not a public assistance program. However, two years of work at a fast food joint will probably not result in a very high SSDI benefit, so this could be a concurrent (both program) allowance. That also means that retroactive benefits on the two programs are intertwined and ongoing benefits SSI is also affected by receipt of SSDI. SSI payments are determined by your local office. SSDI payments are determined at the payment center in Baltimore MD.

Sounds like you have a lot going on and going through this is just another hassle you don't want, but I encourage you to look for the good and not focus on the negative since that will just bring you down. And I wish you many years of receiving SSI and SSDI.