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First of all, if you are still on active duty, you do not get disability. Disability is compensation because you cannot earn a living. You earn a living while on active duty. Therefore, the military does not give you disability rating. It is the VA's responsibility to determine your service related injuries once you separate or retire from active duty.
A person on disability should not earn anything besides getting their monthly check. They are on disability because they are not able to work
Whether a vertebra fracture qualifies a person for disability depends on to what degree if affects their ability to work and to earn a living. If the person can still work after they recover, they may not get disability. Disability is not determined by the injury, it is determined by how much it affects you.
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Disability insurance covers your ability to earn an income. If for any medical reason (illness or injury) you are not able to perform 100% of your duties of your occupation, you are considered disabled or partially disabled. Depending on the definition of disability on your policy, you may even get paid a disability insurance benefit even if you can still work part time or have a loss of income of minimum 15-20% due to your disability/ health issue.
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If hubby is still alive, you can receive up to half of his SS benefit. If hubby is deceased, you can receive up to all of what he would earn if he were still alive.
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If you meet Social Security disability determination guidelines, you can work and continue to receive your monthly benefit check as long as your average monthly earnings do not exceed what SSA considers Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA). In 2010, SGA is $1,000 per month for most disabilities, and $1,640 for blindness. The Social Security Administration discourages people from attempting to work during the first 24 months following disability approval, because doing so may cause your case to be reevaluated and may result in termination of disability status.
The social disability application is a form filled out by someone who is disabled and unable to work. A person who can not work and earn an income would fill out the form and try to get social security disability income.
To be on SSI, you already have a disability of some kind. Straight SSI is dollar for dollar. Earn a dollar, they withhold a dollar. SSDI lets you earn I believe 50 percent of your benefit before they start to deduct. I'm in the same boat and don't know how the government expects a person to survive on so little.