One of the local colleges waiving tuition & fees if you are 60 or older. I was thinking about going back to college after all these years for something to do. I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle or not. My sister is afraid I’ll lose my SSDI if I become a student.
Also is a low-end laptop computer sufficient for college work? I was looking at $200 to $400 ones. I wouldn’t use it for gaming or stuff like that. An internet connection only in my apartment building is currently $34 a month. That includes modem and router with wifi.
Depends on what you use the laptop for. If it is just writing essays, researching on websites, reading PDF’s, sending emails, stuff like that then a $200 dollar laptop is fine. If you are taking a computer science degree in advanced AI you may need something more powerful
Hmm. I never would’ve thought that they would penalize you for going to school. I guess I was at least partially wrong. Seems like they can if they feel your going to college is equal to you working.
“The Social Security Administration may assume you can do full-time work if the amount of time you dedicate to class and homework totals up to the roughly 30 or 40 hours. They may come to this conclusion since that allotment of time equals that of a typical work week.”
Right on! Yeah just take a couple and see how you handle them. That’s pretty awesome about the senior discount. My community college does something similar.
I was living in a board & care home from 1990-95. I took two classes per semester for 5 years. Then I stopped. I was working part-time the entire time and they didn’t take my SSDI away. I was 30-35 years old.
Cut to: 2009. Started taking one online course at a time while working part time. Now I’m 60 and I still take one online class at a time and still work part time and have still been on SSDI.