Know the Rules of the Social Security Disability Trial Work Period

i wanted to know if the trial work program will accept any type of new business. Do they have guidelines on how your business plan is set up?

I just did my 2015 tax reporting. I lost $3,000 doing the ride-sharing, Uber.
I did the Net Earning Self Employment(NESE)calculation which arrived at $760 per month. Monthly earnings I had was not consistent.

Last year, I reported my earning for May which exceeded the the Substantial Gainful Activity(SGA) at $1090 for 2015. It is only one month that went above the SGA amount.

I reported that earning to the Social Security office and it counted it as one trial month. After doing the NESE calculation, I think it should be uncounted toward the trial month. Can I undo this?

Thank you.

I am confused. I was told that I can make up to $1130 while on SSDI, but the trial work period is $810 a month? I have already used up my trial work period, which ended way back in December of 2015. I have pretty much made over $810 every month since then, and I have reported all my earnings to social security. I was also told by social security that I can make up to $1130 a month and still receive my benefits, but I am thrown off by the trial period maximum being $810. So can I make up to $1130 a month on disability, or $810? I have made over $810 after my trial work period for the last year every month, but they have not stopped my payments.

My husband is recovering from brain cancer and is currently cancer free. He is receiving disability and is on a trial work period. If he is successful after the nine months will he have to pay back the disability payments he is now receiving? We do send in and report his paystubs to SSA every two weeks. He recently was hospitalized with kidney stones and has surgery and was off a week of work.

Hi, I didn't know I have to report any income while I correcting disability help. My benefit started July 2015 at the same time I was helping my friend to stay with me to received $300 per month from January to October 2015. Have I exceeded the maximum amount, would that affect my continue benefit?

so during the trial period you have 9months initially and there is no limit to what you can make? where do i go to set the trial period up ?

Hi,
I have been completely blind since birth. Back into thousand and six I started working full time and also started my nine month trial period for Social Security disability. My employment was successful so after nine months my disability stopped. Into thousand 11 my job ended and I was able to have my benefits reinstated. Since then, I have had a part-time employment and have been able to stay under the SGA level each month. I am now able to return to my old job. Will I get a Nother nine month trial work period?

If you are receiving 1700 a month from SSD and you want to work part time can you do?

Hi i have a question, i recently recieved my approval or award letter in july i was working on and off during my application process as it took awhile does that work go towards the trial work period or does the trial start after the approval letter thank you.

If I'm on the work trial period and my nine months end at the end of September to I still get a last check on the 3rd of October for September

My husband was diagnose with congestive heart failure back in May, we are awaiting his final yes or now for disability payments. This whole process is new to us and Ive been reading on here about a trial period. My question is Medicaid called and said they approved him and most likely he will get approved for social security. My question is he is thinking about going back to work, if he goes back to work and then gets approved can he still work, is that what the trial period is for? Just to see if he is really ready? He is concerned about being denied for looking for work? Again we are very new to the entire process.

I have been on ssdi for 3 years. Recently I have decided that the best thing to do for my mental health is to try and work part time. I have multiple disabilities, some of which are physical. I was hired part time at $10 an hour at a gas station in town, I have not yet begun working there but I told my employer I can only work 20 hours a week maximum. I understand that the TWP is $810 or higher. Does this mean that any monthly amount UNDER that $810 is NOT considered a trial work period? If so, can I work my job long term (if my health can handle it) and still recieve full benefits while not compromising them? My disabilities are ongoing, but I do think that in a couple more years I may be able to fully return to work if my health condition is completely managed. In the mean time, there is no way I can work full time and fully support myself without benefits or health care.

I want to caution everyone out there that SS will often misconstrue or even lie about the trial work period and how that works. Just last week I had someone at my local SS office tell me that going over the 810 dollar amount didn't matter and wouldn't in any way cause me to lose my benefits. She also tried to tell me that SS tracked how much I made each month down to the day (as opposed to total monthly income) which I found to be ridiculous, because how can they know my schedule or earnings on a day-to-day basis? She kept insisting that the SGA amount ($1130 was all I needed to pay attention to.
So my question to everyone is this: Should we put any faith or trust in what people at the SS offices say? It seemed to me that the person I talked to was trying very hard to get me to work a little more each month so that I would go over the 810 dollar limit. Has anyone else had any dealings like this?

during the trial work period is the $810 a month in earnings Gross or net that will constitute one month of the 9 trial months?

Here is a complicated mess!! I had a knee replacement in December of 2013. I had to move to Virginia in February of 2014, as my partner's father passed away suddenly of an aneurysm in November of 2013. I work with the developmentally disabled..and there are hardly ANY jobs in that field. I looked for two years and finally found a great job that I drive to 45 minutes one way three days a week.
I started that job in October of 2015. After our arrival in Virginia in February off 2014, I applied for disability due to my severely damaged right knee that did not improve after my knee replacement. So, while waiting for a decision from SSA, I began that job working as a residential counselor for 4 mildly disabled gentleman in Maryland. I FINALLY got my award letter in August of 2016. They determined that I became disabled on July 24, 2016. I have sent in all of my pay stubs since October of last year. My representative told me the SGA was $1,130.00. Then she tells me after Social Security calls me to say they may take away my benefits that that SGA amount was GROSS for the month, not net pay, or take-home pay. I have waited FOREVER for my benefits, and worked in pain. I couldn't reduce my hours below THAT SGA gross and still pay my bills. I honestly made a mistake and thought that the SGA amount was take home!! Gross means nothing to me..I don't ever see that tax money anyway....it was an honest mistake. Besides, it has only been two months note that I've even been declared disabled. Can I call them and tell them it really was an honest mistake and that I will quit my job while awaiting my benefits to start in February of next year??

I started a business but it failed due to me being in the hospital for three months in a coma,SS says I have a second 9 months twp ,I only had business for three months but I lost money 8000,on a truck,and made no profit on the 15000 income,but was told I had didn't have 60 month consecutive work,from 2006 that's when I got first check,and only workers months since them

I get paid every two weeks- meaning I get 26 paychecks per year, so two to three months per year I get three paychecks within a calendar month while working continually the same amount of work and time at work. Why should three paychecks in a month count towards a trial work period - why don't they look at whether I am working more in that month - for example, they could take my total earnings per year and divide it by twelve, so long as my hours are steady, and it would be approximately how much I earned per month. Or they could count the number of hours I was paid for in that month and total my pay for those hours and figure how much I earned that month - a truer figure. But unless I am earning very, very little, I am bound to have a trial work period in five years without even trying. Does that make sense? They appear to have a formula that give most people a trial work period in a certain amount of time no matter what.

When calculating if I have used a Trial Work Month, do I use the period end date of the paycheck or the date the check was paid?