Working While Disabled: How We Can Help

2022

Working While Disabled: How We

Can Help



What's inside

Getting disability benefits and currently working or want to? 1

Social Security disability rules

Social Security work

incentives at a glance

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How your earnings affect your

Social Security benefits

5

What to report if you work and receive Social Security disability 6

If you lose your job

7

Special rules for workers

who are blind

7

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program rules

SSI work incentives at a glance 8

Plan to Achieve Self-Support

(PASS)

9

If your work goal is to

be self-employed

12

How your earnings affect

your SSI payments

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What to report if you work

and receive SSI

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How long your Medicaid

will continue

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Contacting Social Security 19

Getting disability benefits and currently working or want to?

If you get disability benefits and are working or want to work, we have good news for you. Social Security's work incentives and Ticket to Work program can help.

Special rules make it possible for people receiving Social Security disability benefits or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments to work and still receive monthly payments.

And, if you can't continue working because of your medical condition, your benefits can start again -- and you may not have to file a new application.

Work incentives include:

? Cash benefits continue, for a time, while you work.

? Medicare or Medicaid benefits continue while you work.

? Help with education, training, and rehabilitation to start a new line of work.

Social Security and SSI have different rules. We describe the rules under each program in this publication.

If you're receiving Social Security disability benefits or SSI payments, let us know right away when you start or stop working. Also, let us know if any other change occurs that could affect your benefits.

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