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.