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Originally Posted by gracefullystained
I don't know where this goes, so I'm putting it in general. Feel free to move it.
Once I'm stable enough to be able to go out in public again (right now I can't leave my house), I would like to go to college. Does anyone here know whether that will make me lose my disability before I'm ready for the workforce? I know that if you can *work* you'll lose it. ..but work and school are very different things.
Thank you!
gracefully stained
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Each USA state does schooling and social security grants differently.
here in NY you do lose your SSI if you -
use grants and loans ie PELL, TAP, student loans....
here any form of financial aid / cash assistance/ agency assisting you by paying for or helping you to pay for anything is considered income. even having housing assistance like HUD affects your state assistance programs that give you cash, food stamps and medical care. some forms of assistance affects how much food stamps you get, some affects how much medical co pays you have to pay before the medicaid will pay for your medical care and some forms of assistance programs affect SSI in forms of SSI deducting a "recoopment" payment from your SSI checks monthly until you have paid back the cash you were not supposed to get because of going to college on grants loans and scholarships. sometimes they knock you right off SSI because the amounts of your financial aid assistance for college was not reported or because that state did not allow those on SSI to get grants and loans...
my advice contact your SSI worker. let them know you would like to go to college someday and need to know how it will affect your SSI and what you need to do when its time for you to go to college. your SSI worker will have all the information you need for your location about schooling and SSI.