this “disability secrets” website is great at giving straight dope easy to understand advice for those getting or trying to get disability benefits. they gave some conflicting advice though regarding how much one could work…
“This SGA limit allows many disability recipients to do some part-time work. For example, if you were to work 16 hours a week making $16 per hour, your monthly income would be about $1,100, which falls under the SGA amount. As long as you haven’t improved enough medically to work full time (since you were approved for benefits), you should be able to continue receiving benefits.”
" If you return to work while receiving SSDI benefits, the SSA will want to determine if you are engaging in “substantial gainful activity” (SGA). The biggest factor in determining if work qualifies as SGA is the amount a person is paid. In 2020, someone is generally considered to be engaging in SGA if he or she earns more than $1,260 ($2,110 for blind SSDI recipients) So, for example, if you are making, say, $200 per week doing part-time work, you would not be working over the SGA limit. However, this isn’t a cut and dry issue. If you are working a lot, it’s possible for the SSA to determine that your job duties constitute SGA even if you are earning less than the SGA amount."
16 bucks an hour times 16 hours per week, is more than two hundred per week. so their advice is shake-y.
to be clear, these arent contradictions, but it does call into question how social security would view a schizophrenic working a lot, but under the ‘substantial gainful activity’ amount.
the sixteen hours per week thing is also misleading, cause in weeks where there are five work weeks, a person working that much would be over the limit. i dont know why the site would even bother stating that example, as it’s such a simple mistake for someone who is as knowledgeable bout these work related programs as this website.
questions, comments, words of wisdom?