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Old 12-05-2006, 03:18 PM   #1
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allowed? meaning, if you earned more than that, you'd lose your benefits? isn't that a little fucked up?
Yeah. It ought to be set up so that for every dollar you earn, you lose 50 cents of SSDI, or something like that, to make it easier to ease back into the workforce.
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Old 12-05-2006, 03:24 PM   #2
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Yeah. It ought to be set up so that for every dollar you earn, you lose 50 cents of SDDI, or something like that, to make it easier to ease back into the workforce.
mr. Obvious? No.

the 'system' should help the helpless to engage in society. It's good for the mental health plus more. You wanna deprive good people the chance to contribute? talk to someone else. Lots of folk want to m atter...you can volunteer without loss of benes....or didn't you know that?
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Old 12-05-2006, 03:36 PM   #3
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mr. Obvious? No.

the 'system' should help the helpless to engage in society. It's good for the mental health plus more. You wanna deprive good people the chance to contribute? talk to someone else. Lots of folk want to m atter...you can volunteer without loss of benes....or didn't you know that?
Huh?

I don't get the connection between what I said and what you said.

My point was that if it is currently set up so that if you earn over a certain dollar amount you lose a large lump sum, then that actually discourages the recipient from earning money unless they can make enough to cover the entire SSDI payout and more. If, instead, the SSDI was decreased slowly as the recipient earned more, then every dollar they earned would reperesent a net increase in income, and there would be no point at which earning another dollar would be a net negative.
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Old 12-05-2006, 03:44 PM   #4
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Huh?

I don't get the connection between what I said and what you said.

My point was that if it is currently set up so that if you earn over a certain dollar amount you lose a large lump sum, then that actually discourages the recipient from earning money unless they can make enough to cover the entire SSDI payout and more. If, instead, the SSDI was decreased slowly as the recipient earned more, then every dollar they earned would reperesent a net increase in income, and there would be no point at which earning another dollar would be a net negative.
it;s possible that I didn't mean YOU>
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Old 12-05-2006, 03:48 PM   #5
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