How To Report Income To The Social Security Administration If You’re Disabled

You consider yourself one of the lucky ones. You are able to work. You don’t make nearly as much as you did before you became disabled. You don’t even make enough to live on, but you are grateful to be doing the work. Since you make under the minimum amount designated by the Social Security Administration (SSA), you are still able to get Social Security disability benefits.

But You Have to Report Your Income to the SSA

Here’s what you are required to report:

All of your earnings
Whether you stop working or start working
Any changes in your pay or the hours you work
Whether you start paying for any items related to your disability that you need for work (wheelchairs, counseling, or medicines)
Whether you receive extra accommodations to do your work because of your disability such as a mentor, more frequent breaks than your co-workers and other help
Any workers’ compensation or public disability benefits you receive
Your sick pay and vacation pay
Any pensions you benefit from other than Social Security
How often you receive payments from any of these sources
When any of your payments change or end

Here’s how you can report it:

Visit your local Social Security office
Call your local Social Security office
Mail information to your local Social Security office

Before you contact your local Social Security office, you can browse the information available on the Social Security Administration’s website. It may answer some of your questions and give you valuable tips about communicating with your local office.

If you are working while receiving Social Security disability then it is important to remember that there could be consequences for the failure to comply with the SSA’s requirements. Thus, it is important to understand the rules and how to comply with them as soon as you start working.