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SSA logo: link to Social Security Online home  §411.191 Table summarizing the guidelines for timely progress toward self-supporting employment.

You may use the following table as a general guide to determine what you need to do to meet the guidelines for timely progress toward self-supporting employment. For more detail, refer to §§411.180-411.190, and §§411.195 and 411.200.

If you: You are in this period: You must work: With this level of
earnings:		 At the end of the
period we will
conduct your:
(a) First assigned your ticket less than 24 months ago (not counting any months during which your ticket was unassigned or was not in use) Initial 24-month period No work requirement. Must be actively participating in employment plan Not applicable 24-month progress review.
(b) First assigned your ticket 25 to 36 months ago, not counting certain months[1] First 12-month progress review period 3 months out of 12[2] Earnings at the SGA level for non-blind beneficiaries;[3] or If you are an SSI-only beneficiary, gross earnings from employment or net earnings from self-employment which, before SSI income exclusions, are more than the SGA threshold amount for non-blind beneficiaries First 12-month progress review.
(c) First assigned your ticket 37 to 48 months ago, not counting certain months[1] Second 12-month progress review period 6 months out of 12 Earnings at the SGA level for non-blind beneficiaries;[2] or If you are an SSI-only beneficiary, gross earnings from employment or net earnings from self-employment which, before SSI income exclusions, are more than the SGA threshold amount for non-blind beneficiaries Second 12-month progress review.
(d) First assigned your ticket 49 to 60 months ago, not counting certain months[3] Third 12-month progress review period 6 months out of 12 Earnings sufficient to preclude Social Security disability and Federal SSI cash benefits for a month Third 12-month progress review.

Note to table: In later 12-month progress review periods, the work and earnings requirements are the same as in the third 12-month progress review period.
[1]In counting the 24 months which make up the initial 24-month period that begins after you assign your ticket, we do not count any months during which your ticket was unassigned or was not in use (see §411.180(b)(1)). In counting the 12 months which make up any subsequent 12-month progress revieww period, we do not count any months during which your ticket was unassigned (see §411.180(b)(2)).
[2]If you worked in one or more months during the initial 24-month period at the level of work applicable to the work requirement for the first 12-month progress review period, each such month of work may be used to reduce by one month the number of months of work required for the first 12-month progress review period (see §411.180(c)(2)).
[3]For an explanation of how we determine if you meet this requirement if you are in a trial work period or if you are blind, see §411.185(a)(1) or (c)(1).

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