Ticket-to Work allows you to work with an agency such as Vocational Rehab to you to get back to work; they can help with education, retraining, job coaching, interviewing, and/or placements. The other advantage of Ticket to Work while working with them is that you are not subject to medical reviews during the time being with them. However, there are goals you have to meet for the program. It would be better to contact them before you get a job to find out more and if it is right for you.

The amounts you earn for work to keep your SSDI have nothing to do with Ticket to Work. Those are Social Security statutes. If you contact social security, they can refer you to a benefits specialist in your area so that you can go over what happens if you return to work, the earning amounts, and how it can affect your social security. So whether you work with Ticket to Work or not, it has no bearing on your SSDI, only whether you are subject to medical reviews but TTW can possibly be beneficial in helping you get back to work.

I found that I could not meet some of the goals of Ticket to Work in that the one year's goals as I needed to be going full time by the one benchmark year as school was my goal in getting back to work for retraining; it varies depending on your work goal. With my disability that was just not possible. I was let go from TTW. I am subject now to medical reviews but has not affected my SSDI nor my ability to work with Vocational Rehab. So in that regard, the only benefit I see I that you are not subject to medical reviews in working with them.

I would definitely look into though to see if it might be right for you before you begin working but more importantly definitely talk to a social security benefits specialist to go over the ins and outs of how earnings can affect your social security. There are procedures and policies that must be followed for reporting earnings, etc.