Social Security Insider - Latest Comments in Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

Re: Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

Chris Ayers — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:02:16 -0000

Hell I an Chris. What I am wondering is, I trying to get disability with an attorney, but I have been offered a job. If I take it and it turns out I can do it, will I still owe my attorney anything?

Re: Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

Ali — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:35:30 -0000

Hello I am Ali. I was approved for SSDI on August 2014 and will reach my full retirement age (66) on November 2017. Under TWP, I can start working and having SGA for nine months. Per SSA rules, I still can earn SGA the first and two consecutive months (Grace Period) after the nine months of TWP is over, so I can work 12 months having SGA and receive my, SSDI. My question is this, what happen if within these 12 months, I reach and enter 66 my full retirement age?

Re: Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

Jack Grenan — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:01:27 -0000

I had 4th stage cancer & 3 months in a coma with a costant 106 degree fever I had irreparable brain damage and actually died. I have 50% kidneys part of a pigs stomach, neuropathy, severe glaucoma, catarracts, an inoperable stomach tumor, a 2 inch salivary stone that needs to be operated on that may alter my speech...My question is CAN YOU HAE MOTE THAN 1 9 MONTH TRIAL WORK PERIOD?? i HAD 1 FRON 12 /2008 UNTIL 10 2010 AND STILL WAS DISABLED mY JOB WAS CALLING SCHOOL SUPERINTEANDENTS TO DISCUSS HEALTH COVERAGE SINCE i HELD A DOCTOARATE THESE ARE 1 TIME JOBS THAT PAY VERY WEEL On the 1 800 phone call I swas told not once but twice that I qualified for A SECOND 9 MONTH TRIALS WORK PERIOD BUT THE mI mUSKEGON mi who said they " NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE GETTING A 2ND TRIAL PERIOD!!!!!!! HELP HELP HELP JACKGRENAN@NETSCAPE.NET THANKS JACK

Re: Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

JLo — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:18:45 -0000

Question?

I am disabled. I completed the nine month, work trial period and continued to work for almost 60 months (5 years).

I was diagnosed with cancer and my Social Security Disability was reinstated. I went through radiation, chemotherapy, and major surgery. I have been on disability for two years now but I feel good enough that I want to return to work. I know there is a big difference between want and can.

Do I start a new work trial period? If not, does Social Security offer some type of cushion just in case I can't return to work?

Re: Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

Dale — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:17:06 -0000

I really feel Social Security should do much more with this. Gainful jobs are hard to come by but they are exponentially harder to come by if you are disabled. If a person is able to find a job that is within the criteria that they can work with being diasabled that is awesome but there is no guarantee that the job will last or that they could find another in a reasonable amount of time. If because of my disabilty it takes me years to find a job where the hours and work environment is accomidating to my disability, I still have to question taking it because I know if that after a year(or maybe several) that job disappears, I am back to a minimum of a year without income. If a person is permamently disabled there should be programs that will subsidize a person's income up to their current disability payment if they attempt to work and that guarantees they can fall back on their disability payment if the job they find disappears.

Re: Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

TomaszStasiuk — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:51:48 -0000

Absolutely right. Thank you for catching that. Want to be my copy editor?

Re: Going Back to Work While On Social Security Disability (Trial Work Period)

Jodylogic — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:56:56 -0000

TYPO!
In the above article, it says:
"That means you can actually have more than 9 Trial Work Period months in total, so long as you do not exceed 9 TWP months in a 6 month period."
*You mistakenly wrote 6 month period, correction: 60 month period!