Maybe this will help.... I am 24 and have not worked a ton inn my life so my payments are kinda low. What I was giving in my sheet, and when i spoke to the person I was told I can make up to 670 a month without it effecting my disability at all. If I make over 670 or something like that and I must report it. I have a total of 9mo that i can make over 670 until my disability is cut off. So I guess if I continue to work and make less than the 670 I will continue to recieve my disability. the 800 can be made at any time, switing to below or above, with the above totaling up to 670...so say in 4 months i make 624, 700, 660, 600, 600, only 1 month counts torwards the 9mo period.

But here is the thing,. If I start working and make any income I loose my medicaid, which covers all of my copays, which I am there 2 times a week, and it   really adds up...and I am on a ton of meds too. So if anyone has a tip o how to keep medicaid I would soooo appreciate it!

These numbers are estimated and i believe they are different based on how much disability you are paid.

this is what I was told and read, but I could be wrong or it could be different for you. I would call to make sure.

Its called the ticket to work program....or not, that might be something different, but look into it any ways lol.

~Frank

Ok, talk about being slow on the response here.  My son went back to work full time, he was making approximately 1,000 per month at the time.  That job was a summer job as a camp counselor.  Last fall he went to work as a residential specialist for the developmentally disabled at that job he made approximately 1,400 per month at 30 hrs per week, but it was counted as full time.  He has recently switched to an IT job for a perscription company and will make even more.  We both had spoken to disability as sometimes his short term memroy sucks so I talked to them as well.  I was told that he had a 9 month back to work trial period, and there was no income limit, I believed that since they counted the summer job even though it was temporary that they may count a part time job as well.  Since, he has his new girlfriend and sports car to pay for, he couldn't afford to risk losing disability over a part time job and thus why he decided he needed to make enough to cover his lifestyle and looked for full time.  We were told by the oncologist that when it came up for his review time for disability she would not say he is disabled anymore, so he decided to pursue a full time job to see if he could handle it before he lost his disability completely.  I am not sure how often they review temporary disability cases as my son has been receiving it since June of 2006, someone had told me every three years.  So, either way, by June he will have an accumulated total of 9 months of work and he'll be up for his review anyways so he's likely to lose his disability then.  My son did not lose his medicaid during this 9 month trial period.  He is covered by private insurance as well, but while he has been on the back to work trial period even though his income has exceeded his disability payments they have not taken anything away.  My son's disability payments were about $750 per month.  He didn't have much of a work history either, he was 20 and in college, or so it seemed, and I almost fell off my chair when the lady at SS said he had enough work credits...lol.