Can I make up to a certain dollar amount and still be able to get on Social Security disability benefits?
Sort of, but there is so much complexity and so many exceptions that it is best that you not even think about it. Lots of Social Security disability cases are borderline. A real person has to make a decision for Social Security about whether you are disabled. That person might look at your case one way and approve your claim or look at it another way and deny your claim. How would it look to that person if you deliberately work right up to a certain dollar amount? It will look like you are able to work and are just playing games. That may not be your intent, but that is how it would look to someone else. You would probably be denied even though the rules might say, in theory, that the work doesn’t matter. People who try to work right up to some dollar amount usually make a mistake anyway. They forget that Social Security is interested in their earnings before taxes rather than their take home pay or they get tripped up because some months have more paydays than others. The bottom line
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