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Reporting Earnings to Social Security: Common Myths Debunked
The sight of any letter from Social Security often causes your average SSI or SSDI recipient, from fear of what lies within, to want to cast the offending item, unopened, into the nearest recycling bin. Although there are some quite innocuous reasons why Social...
Reminder – 2018 SSI & SSDI Figures Are Now In Effect!
The new year brings with it new figures to be aware of with regard to SSI and SSDI. As was broadcasted on this website back in October, SSI and SSDI recipients' benefit amounts have seen a 2% COLA increase. This change means that the maximum amount of SSI an...
The Work Activity Report – SSA’s Most Important Tool for Keeping Work Records Up-To-Date!
If you are an SSDI beneficiary and have worked in the past while receiving your benefits or are currently working, there is an important Social Security form you should be familiar with called a 'Work Activity Report – Employee' (form SSA-821). Social Security uses a...
Work Incentives – Subsidies and Special Conditions
If you're familiar with how employment impacts Title II benefits like SSDI, then you are already aware that following the end of the Trial Work Period, Social Security will make a determination about whether an individual is performing Substantial Gainful Activity or...
Work Incentives – Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE)
Social Security has special rules called work incentives that support employment efforts and serve as an extra 'incentive' for SSI and SSDI beneficiaries to work. One of these work incentives is called an Impairment Related Work Expense, more commonly known by it's...