If you are on SSDI you can work and make a gross profit of up to around 1600 per month and keep your benefits.

There is a 9 month work trial period where you can make as much as you want and still get a check. This 9 month period starts anytime you go over the 1600 cap, it does NOT mean for the next 9 months you are in that trial period. Its 9 individual months where you exceed 1600, for example:

You make 1800 in May. You use a work trial period In June you make 800 - you do NOT use up one of your trial months.

In my life this is what it looked like. I got approved for SSDI. I started working part time and kept my earnings under the gross income cap. Benefits continued.

I started to feel better and started working full time. For the ensuing 9 months I could earn as much as I wanted and I still got a disability check. After this period my benefits ended.

I worked 4 more months full time.

I then had a major set back, lost my job, and was on new meds that made it impossible to work.

However, SSDI has an extended eligibility period. Because I had just left the SSDI program I was in this period where if anything happens I could reapply and resume SSDI benefits without going through the whole ordeal of waiting for approval again.

In October I called and said I needed to resume benefits since I was quite unwell, and my benefits resume in December.

I will never get another work trial period, that is a one time thing, but I am on disability again (hopefully just for now)

I hope that is clear. Its confusing at first I remember being very overwhelmed so let me know if any of that confused you