Social security Benefits Under 62

[susieq]

In Michigan, if you are considered "totally and permanently disabled" you will get an extra exemption.

If someone received SS at age 60 and called herself disabled --- would you think that she was "totally disabled" by SSA eventhough she could work and make a specified amt of $$?

[DaveO]

I have a deaf client who is drawing SS

Even though he is still in his 50's. He worked right up to the point he began to draw SS benefits.

[jainen]

When you say

>>even though she could work and make a specified amt of $$<<

When you say, "could," do you actually mean "does"? Receipt of SS payments does not mean she is permanently disabled. If she returns to "substantial gainful work" she would not be considered disabled even though her benefits haven't yet stopped.

[oceanlovin'ea]

Allowed to earn some money

Disability benefits from SS are not enough for anyone to live on. The government allows people on disability to earn up to a certain wage.

Some are able to work a little bit but are not phyically or mentally able to be gainfully employed.

Some on disability should not be getting it and should be working, but then some deserve to be on disability and can't get it.

Linda F

[George Boutwell]

If someone received SS at age 60 and called herself disabled --- would you think that she was "totally disabled" by SSA eventhough she could work and make a specified amt of $$?

Since the Michigan individual income tax instructions state

>>Totally and permanently disabled means disabled as defined under Social Security Guidelines<<

I would think so.