if you dont care what i think then that makes it easy.....good luck

I had a Workers Comp settlement right about the time I applied for Social Security disability. The one thing that my WC attorney told me was that as long as my WC settlement was less than $25,000, it would not impact social security disability at all. My WC settlement therefore was one penny short of that amount. This is not to suggest that I would not have gotten social security disability if the amount was greater than $25,000. But if it is over that, it can reduce the amount of your monthly social security disability amount at least temporarily.

Your attorney gave you incorrect information. There is no $24,999 exclusion. You cannot get more thatn 80% of your average current earnings per month from a combination of WC and SSDI. Every case is different.

Jim,

Tell your friend that the application process with SSDI can be very frustrating (as he knows if you have shared any stories of your wife's struggles with him).....still, I think he'll be better off getting the ball rolling on that.

SSDI does the computations about how much he rec'd from WC and deducting that from any backpay he might be entitled to from SSDI.