Money FB - 2/28 - Something off his breasts

[anusaurus]

No. Chris could still have gainful employment and retain his SSDI benefits.
There's usually system of having a threshold amount before it starts affecting the dollar amount of his cheques.
For instance, where I live, I believe the amount is $300 or so, After that, for every $1 you earn, 50¢ is subtracted from the benefits.

 

[picklehaube]

If he he works, it lowers the chance we get to see him lather himself up in estrogel, bitch about blarms, sleepovers et all.

I'm happy with him being a wingnut on the instawebnets, my tax dollars don't fund him. My tax dollars go towards dole bludgers who think having a child is worth a $5000 baby bonus.. People who are known as "Shazza", "Bazza" and "Yothu Yindi"

Let him swing his D cups.

 

[DragoonSierra]

If he he works, it lowers the chance we get to see him lather himself up in estrogel, bitch about blarms, sleepovers et all.

I'm happy with him being a wingnut on the instawebnets, my tax dollars don't fund him. My tax dollars go towards dole bludgers who think having a child is worth a $5000 baby bonus.. People who are known as "Shazza", "Bazza" and "Yothu Yindi"

Let him swing his D cups.

Thats like 1-2 hours total out of his day though. Which means he has at least say 10-12 hours to do nothing or get a job. Also way more chances to see him bitch on facebook about how his day was crappy. He totally resents being responsible if he gets a job he will complain about it.

 

[picklehaube]

Which means he has at least say 10-12 hours to do nothing or get a job

It probably takes him 10-12 hours to figure out if he needs to pee or not though

 

[Marvin]

No. Chris could still have gainful employment and retain his SSDI benefits.
There's usually system of having a threshold amount before it starts affecting the dollar amount of his cheques.
For instance, where I live, I believe the amount is $300 or so, After that, for every $1 you earn, 50¢ is subtracted from the benefits.

By the SSA definition, "substantial gainful activity" is a dollar amount. So by their definition, if you are capable of making more than $1130 (edit: per month) in 2016, you shouldn't have SSDI.

But you're right in that they have pretty generous rules in place to encourage disabled people to try to get back into the workforce. They have trial work periods and things like that. I remember hearing about the $0.50 per $1 earned thing you're talking about, but I can't seem to find it on the SSA site.

 

[Handsome Pete]

By the SSA definition, "substantial gainful activity" is a dollar amount. So by their definition, if you are capable of making more than $1130 in 2016, you shouldn't have SSDI.

Because there's no such thing as "too clear" when it comes to stuff like this, he means $1130 per month. Not for the whole year. Chris might be selling shit, but he's still well below that line. Please do not annoy the IRS with your calls; they will not care. Thank you.

 

[AnOminous]

By the SSA definition, "substantial gainful activity" is a dollar amount. So by their definition, if you are capable of making more than $1130 in 2016, you shouldn't have SSDI.

There are two things at play here. One is the ability to engage in substantial gainful activity (SGA), which is usually gauged by whether the SSA finds that you're able to hold down a full-time job that exists in the national economy, previously from an ancient book called the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. If you could theoretically, as established by the testimony of a vocational expert or some other evidence, hold down some job in the canonical list, you weren't disabled.

The ability to engage in SGA is more of an abstract concept than an actual thing.

Actually engaging in SGA, though, is another, and when you earn a certain amount of money, you are presumed to be engaging in SGA.

If you have some conditions, codified in the Listing of Impairments, you are presumed to be unable to engage in SGA. You have no legal obligation at that point to try to prove this presumption wrong. You can simply not work or quit work and collect disability. Some of these are obvious, like amputated limbs. Others, like mental disabilities, usually require establishing first what are called the A criteria, objectively establishing the existence of the disorder, but then other criteria, often called the B or C criteria, must also be satisfied to establish that not only does the condition exist, but that objective medical evidence establishes that the condition has consequences that result in a presumption of disability.

Autism has A and B criteria: https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm#12_10

I am assuming he met the criteria for that, which would establish as a legal matter a presumption of inability to engage in substantial gainful activity.

So to disqualify himself, he would actually have to engage in such activity and earn income. Unearned income doesn't count against this particular disqualifier.

Ironically, this would mean that he could conceivably be penalized for actually doing creative stuff like making medallions and selling them, while people could send him free money all day long.