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In reply to the discussion: Income limits for SSDI [View all]

dixiegrrrrl

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6. Interestingly, you can collect more than that on SSDI
Sat Feb 8, 2014, 06:48 PM
Feb 2014

if your work earnings justify that.

So it does not make much sense to pick 1070, and esp. 700.

i suspect what that is about is that you are forced to work at 700.00 for more than 3 months, thus having a record of a
"work" quarter.
SSDI is based on your last work quarters...can't remember how many quarters. So if you earned good money at some point in your life, but then earned lower money the last 2 years you worked, the payments would be less.

I know that based on my long term work quarters I would have gotten a lot less in Soc. Sec. but fortunately I earned a much higher salary in the last year that I worked. So that is why the info about work quarters stuck with me.

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