If you are receiving SSDI or SSI benefits, you or your representative payee must promptly report any changes in work activity that could affect your benefits. You must tell us right away if:

You return to work;

You already reported to work, but your duties or pay have changed;

You start paying for work expenses due to your disability. See our chapter, GUIDE TO EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS, for more information on impairment-related work expenses

You can report changes in your work activity by phone, fax, mail or in person. Call our toll free number 1-800-772-1213 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, or visit your local SSA office.

When you report changes in your work activity, we will give you a receipt to verify that you have properly fulfilled your obligation to report. Keep this receipt with all of your other important papers from Social Security.

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When Will We Review Your Disability?

We will review your disability case periodically to see if your condition has medically improved or if you can perform SGA

If you have been receiving SSDI benefits for at least 24 months, we will not conduct a medical review just because you are working. We will not conduct a review to see if your condition has medically improved while you are using a Ticket to Work. (See our chapter, GUIDE TO EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS.) We will review your case when we receive information that you may have medically improved or during a regularly scheduled medical review.

If you are receiving SSI benefits, we may review your case if you work and are eligible for Medicaid While Working under Section 1619(b) or if there are changes in your work status, but not more often than once a year.

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When Will Your Benefits Stop?

If you are receiving SSDI benefits and we find you no longer have a disabling impairment due either to work at the SGA level or medical improvement, we say that your disability "ceased.” If we find that your disability ceased due to work at the SGA level, our decision is effective in the month shown by the evidence. If we find that your disability ceased due to medical improvement, our decision is effective in the month shown by the evidence, or the month we give you written notice, if later. In either case, we pay SSDI benefits for the cessation month and the following two months. We call these 3 months the "grace period."

Your SSDI benefits may continue:

If we cease your disability due to your work at the SGA level (see our chapter, OVERVIEW OF OUR DISABILITY PROGRAMS), or

If we ceased your disability due to medical improvement, your benefits may be continued if you are participating in a program of vocational rehabilitation, or similar services, employment services or other support services (see our chapter, GUIDE TO EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS).

If you are receiving SSI benefits, you are not eligible for benefits for the months you do not meet the non-disability-related eligibility requirements, for example, the income and resources tests.

If we find that you no longer have a disabling impairment due to medical improvement, we say that your disability “ceased.” Our decision is effective with the month shown by the evidence, or the month we give you written notice, if later. However, your SSI eligibility continues for this month and/or the following two months if you meet all the non-disability related requirements including the income and resources tests. We call these three months the “grace period.”

If we ceased your disability due to medical improvement, your SSI benefits may be continued if you are participating in a program of vocational rehabilitation or similar services, employment services, or other support services (see our chapter, GUIDE TO EMPLOYMENT SUPPORTS).


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