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~~Tuffy~~ · 07-30-2009, 09:15 AM

I did not know you could collect SSDI and also work. Now you can collect SS retirement and work. If your Dr has released you to work , you can collect unemployment.under your Dr restrictions.
Kate is from Florida and may be able to help you more in making a decision. Hang in there.
If you have come this far with no problems with WC, and are receiving regular checks yet. I see no reason for an Attorney at this time.

jayne · 07-30-2009, 11:01 AM

Lawyers dont always get you a check right away.....I went a whole year without a check and had a good lawyer...we won in the end but if they(WC) dont wanna pay you and it takes a court order to pay you it could be a long time to get to court.....lawyers are not magicians.....

FloridaLady · 07-30-2009, 12:14 PM

The way I understand it you can try to work for up to 9 months without losing your SSD, if you can't work then nothing lost if you can the SSD stops but can be restarted I think within 5 yrs, ( don't know for sure the time)

Since I am shocked I was approved for SSD, I still want to see if I can work, my plans were to work until I was 70, but I think I can see that I will not be able to work or at least work in what I was doing, Property Management. If I take the SS Retirement I can earn around $14,000 a yr without losing. I just did not think I would have to be making these decisions, not now. I know people who have died before they were approved for SSD and I get it the 1st try,there has to be a reason.

As I always say, everything happens for a reason, and just because I can't see the reason doesn't mean anything.
Thank all of you for you answers, I love reading them and I have learned alot, since May when I found this site.

Florida Lady "Nancy"