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SSI only allows you to earn some nominal amount close to $30 per month without it affecting your payments. There are newer work incentives but consider whether it's worth it. Sometimes when you are off, it's difficult to get back on.
SSDI allows up to close to $1700-$1800 or so without it affecting your payments. I used to know these numbers but in the last few years, so much inflation, they were changed. SSDI also has work incentives with the same issue is once you are off, it might be difficult to get back on SSDI. Ensure you pick a job you LOVE with little risk.
I will repeat what every has already told you: There is nothing that prohibits an employer from hiring a person on disability! Working while receiving disability may impact your continued benefits.
Please repeat after me: "I can be hired and/or work while applying for, receiving, or after getting disability benefits. However, working may impact my continued benefits."
Repeat as many times as it takes you to understand this simple concept.
I want to apply for a company that is a federal subcontractor. If I apply for disability benefits and do not get them, can I still get hired by this company or any other company?
Same answer as before - if willing and able to do the job, yes you can. It may prevent you from being eligible for benefits while you are earning that income.
Ok but the question I was asking was if I apply and do not receive the benefits (ineligible), does this affect at all future employment. Also I just wanted your opinion on whether I should even apply for disability since I was let go for a performance issue.
Ok but the question I was asking was if I apply and do not receive the benefits (ineligible), does this affect at all future employment. Also I just wanted your opinion on whether I should even apply for disability since I was let go for a performance issue.
Re-phrasing the same question over and over isn't going to result in a different answer. If you truly are deemed ineligible for disability (remember, others have mentioned that people often need to apply multiple times before getting approved), what difference would that make to future employers? They wouldn't need to consider it or accommodate for it.
Do you believe your "performance issue" was created by some disability you think you have? If the performance issue had nothing to do with ability to perform the work, why would being let go from a previous job influence a disability application that occurs once that job is history?
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Ok but the question I was asking was if I apply and do not receive the benefits (ineligible), does this affect at all future employment.
You're asking this same question over and over and the answer is still the same. You can still get a job regardless of your history of receiving benefits, or being denied benefits. It simply does not matter. You don't even have to disclose the denial of benefits on a job application in the vast majority of cases. You seem to be imagining a rule that does not exist. Either that, or someone told you something very strange, and you believed them.
If you were already receiving benefits, and you got a job, then you would be required to submit the appropriate form(s) to the agency issuing the benefits, and they might get cut. But if you are not receiving any benefits, then absolutely nothing happens, you simply carry on with your life (and the job).
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Originally Posted by dalyellen
Also I just wanted your opinion on whether I should even apply for disability since I was let go for a performance issue.
If this is the public benefit (SSDI or equivalent) , then it only matters if you are medically qualified, not what happened at your last job.
If it is a private benefit provided by the employer, you need to read the HR and disability policies for the last employer, but generally you cannot sign up for an employee benefit after you have been fired. There might be an exception if you were improperly fired due to the disability when you should have been put on leave.
Without posting identifying information, please post your story of what happened that led you to post here.
Please include:
-your age
-if you have applied (or are receiving) for disability and if so through what agency-Social Security, insurance, what?
The more information you supply the better targeted responses you will get.
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