Has anybody successfully gotten OFF SSI?

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I mean, gotten off and stayed off? Been able to start a business that was successful, or gotten an aspie-friendly job? I've been on SSI since I was 18, and lately it seems like it doesn't keep up with inflation, and there's always the threat that it will be cut instead of increased. I am on Medicare through my mom and SSI can't give me a straight answer as to whether I'd be cut off from it if I tried working. I am no longer on Medicaid, California cut the income limits so low I no longer qualify. If you get a job, do they make you repay your SSI?

I'm just curious. A lot of folks try every year to get on SSI. How come you're trying to get off?

Cause I don't want to live with my parents for the rest of my life. Cause I want something to do with my time, all I do is lay in bed all day. Cause it's no longer adequate to survive, what with inflation running 10% a year.

http://www.ssa.gov/work/overview.html#a0=1
The Ticket to Work program allows you to transition to employment without endangering your benefits.

As for wanting to get out of your parents place, you try and get yourself on a waiting list for subsidized housing where only 30% of your SSI check will go towards rent. The other thing you can do is scour the Craiglist and find someone with a room for rent (there are people doing this looking to pay their mortages)...though if you can get along with your parents right now, I wouldn't recommend it unless you absolutely have to get away from your parents. In the past nine months since I moved out of my mom's place, I have to move for the third time by the end of this month. The first place I moved to the landlord was mentally unstable and where I am now, the couple I'm renting from are going through some "big changes". There's also group homes but you have to fork over your SSI and if you have food support, you have to give that up too.

because the longer you are on it, the harder it will be to get any job..

No, I am still trying to get on it...but I imagine getting off of it is a lot easier than getting on it. I think all you have to do is get a job and start making above a certain amount and they kick you off. But unless you can function well enough to work enough to support yourself I'd really think about it.......you don't want to end up without work or SSI probably.

Yes but how do you get a job when you have a large gap on your Resume. Taking classes and learning new skills is nice in theory but recruiters are only concerned with how many years of specific experience you have in the workplace. A large gap on Resume when you are absent from the real working world is the kiss of death I am sorry to say and there is just the stigma of what people are thinking-- you know everyone leaves for work on weekdays by 8:00am and mostly the only people out are just retirees and moms with young kids

I was on SSI from November 1977 to September 2000. I'll tell you why people want to get off SSI. Because SSI is not that much money and you can't live on it without Section 8 \ Housing Choice Vouchers. Even with Section 8 Housing Assistance it is still hard to live on SSI. You can't save any money to try to escape poverty the minute you go over the savings cap they cut your check. Section 8 housing is always in the absolute worst drug infested parts of town. Living on SSI is like living in a prison that does not have bars to keep you in a cell. I needed SSI for the years I was on it because; I had autism issues that were severe. I was so antisocial I was a true danger to myself and others at the time. I had been abuse most of my life because; I made social, cognitive and other mistakes and got beatings from my family. Peers and others used my autism mistakes to start fights with me and I usually beat them till they bled. I was a monster when attacked I fought back with a force way in excess of what was needed. I was NOT ready for a job in any workplace.

However I was trying to learn how to cope in society. In time I was able to manage my autism so I could pass in the community. In time I went to college and entered a paid internship that turned into a very good long lasting job. I ended up making about $20,000 a year not much but far better than SSI. So yes after about 4 months into my paying job my SSI stopped. My Medicaid stopped and I switched to medical insurance from my job. What I just shared with you happened in the year 2000.

So I got off SSI 16 years ago this past June and I never looked back. God willing I will never see SSI again. I actually think I have been working too long and making to much to qualify for SSI now. If I did become too disable to work I'd likely qualify for SSDI Social security Disability Income now. So yes I have successfully gotten off SSI and it was not easy. Getting off SSI takes a lot of planning and at times sheer luck. I UNSUCCESSFULLY tried to get off SSI many many times before I was finally successful. My advice to you is NEVER GIVE UP TRYING TO GET OFF SSI to work for your own money with no strings attached. I tried and failed many times to get off SSI but, I learned from each failure and improved my SSI escape plan with each subsequent try. SSI is like a drug addiction it keeps pulling you back when you try to escape so you have to keep trying to escape because; giving up equals defeat.

Why did I want to leave SSI.

1. You get money but not enough to enjoy life.
2. You live constantly with the threat of losing your benefits
3. You can't save to make things better for yourself.
4. You have so many rules you must adhere to when on SSI
5. You have so many things you must report that affect your income.
6. You get tired of staying home and doing absolutely NOTHING ALL DAY!
7. You get just enough money to live but never enough to enjoy life.
8. You get just enough money to live among dope addicts, criminals and other scum.
9. You don't get to eat healthy because on SSI you can't afford it.
10. You are pray to the Rent To Own & other businesses that fleece the poor.

There are many more reasons to leave SSI but that's just the first ten reasons I left SSI and I have never looked back or missed it!

Congratulations on getting of SSI!

Thank you so very much. I am glad it was there when I needed it don't get me wrong. I just wanted more out of life than SSI could ever give me. Stay strong.

That's my goal as well, to be able to get off SSI as you really can't save money at all, and if you get someone in the Social Security office who hates their job, they find any reason to cut your check, even if you've done everything they told you to do.

I googled SSI and it came up with Scuba Schools Internation, but I suspect that is not your meaning. It is some kind of Disability benefit? I've been on temporary ill health benefits and long-term unemployment benefits and am currently employed

SSI is Supplemental Security Income a benefits program for people who have disabilities but lack sufficient quarters for SSDI Social Security Disability Income. Go to the web address below and you will read about SSI. Hope this helps.

https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityssi/ssi.html

AUTISTIC WEREWOLF

I was early in life when i had no income or anything, then unemployment benefits whenever i didn't have job. Eventually i got a steady job and i've started saving money because i do not want to go back to that world where you can be abused by people who send you of to crap jobs so their statistics look good.

Hopefully i wont have to use the money for that and can save up some more and use it when i retire.

Yeah, I know people who are on SSD and SSI and it is no picnic. Yes, if there is a need to be on it, I have no problem but it does not provide too much to live on. I know a friend who is on it and until her aunt died to give her a decent car, the car she had kept peeing anti-freeze and had other problems. It's not much o a lfe at all and if there is a way off of it, I would try my best to get off of it.