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[quote=Anonymous]I have a disability and receive SSDI in Virginia. You cannot make more than $1500 a month working and keep your disability. Through the Ticket to Work program, there is some leeway in making more than $1500 a month without disqualifying for benefits, but even then Substantial Gainful Activity is limited to only 9 months total out of a lifetime. Being disabled has created a very difficult 10 year health crisis that I have had to painfully adjust to. My disability has caused me job loss, housing crisis, homelessness, family law issues even with custody for my child when it was weaponized against me.

I am a well educated MBA that has 25 years of professional experience. My last hourly rate was $150/hr. I would gladly go back to being a full functioning healthy person that is able to work and live out my life’s dreams if I could. It took me a long time to admit I had a disability, because it is embarassing and disability discrimination is real.

The SSA disability benefits if applied in totality may help to level the playing field but it also takes a lot of work to qualify for related government and public programs. Waiting lists are long, selections are few, and the quality of life is still diminished.

I have paid into this system with a high salary for many years and was (wrongfully) dropped from my private disability insurance during covid. I am not abusing the system by receiving benefits that I am legally entitled to as a disability worker.

Some of the anecdotal evidence in this thread is misleading.

Thank you to the SSA worker and Pro Bono disability advocate posting in this thread for clarifying and stating actual facts.

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