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Old Feb 11, 2025, 11:57 AM
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That’s cool. In my experience they would if they deem it essential for your future employment. They won’t pay if it’s something random not needed for employment. Their ultimate goal is to have people employed

I just (as in finished 15 minutes ago) had a meeting on ticket to work and getting off benefits and such, and they said "if you want to be a math tutor, they'll help pay for a math degree, but if your plan is to be a pilot, they won't pay for music school."

There's a lot of safeties in place if things don't go as planned (as of today anyways) that depend on if you're on SSI or SSDI (or a concurrent beneficiary). Like for SSDI you have expedited reinstatement up to 5 years after completely coming off of cash benefits so if someone starts working today, they have their 9 months of making over $1160 and a few years of EPE, and then if up to 5 years after that you can't work you're (as of what current law says) able to get back on SSDI without having to do a whole new application process.

And just saying in the school I was at, you can get 60 credits in a year if you take 5-6 courses in a semester (depending on how many are labs or not) and do 3 consecutive semesters (including the summer). That's ridiculously hard, and I couldn't do it with what I planned on majoring because of the limited schedule and prerequisites (and I would go straight to the state hospital and never come out taking calc II, calc III, and diff e at the same time while in 2 other courses), but I'm sure there are majors and school that's possible for.
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