Working & Keeping Benefits
Keeping benefits and testing a return to work safely: the trial work period and SGA, Ticket to Work and other work incentives, continuing disability reviews, overpayments and waivers, expedited reinstatement, and what you must report to Social Security.
All Working & Keeping Benefits guides
- Working While on Disability: Trial Work Period and SGA
Yes, you can try working on SSDI or SSI without an instant cutoff. Here's how the trial work period, EPE, and SGA framework actually work.
- Expedited Reinstatement If Your Benefits Stopped
How expedited reinstatement (EXR) lets you restart SSDI or SSI within about 5 years of benefits stopping, without a new application.
- Reporting Changes and Staying Eligible for Disability
What you must report to SSA on SSDI or SSI, when to report it, and how timely reporting prevents overpayments and protects your benefits.
- Continuing Disability Reviews (CDR), Explained
How SSA's periodic disability reviews work, what triggers one, the medical-improvement standard, and your appeal rights and deadlines.
- Disability Overpayments and How to Request a Waiver
SSA says it overpaid you? Learn why, your appeal and waiver options, deadlines, and how to negotiate repayment.
- Ticket to Work and Return-to-Work Incentives
Free SSA work incentives that let SSDI/SSI recipients test working without an automatic medical review or sudden loss of benefits.