Hi...I work at SSA one day a week. People really don't understand how any of their SSA benefits are computed. You pay into the system a portion each paycheck. To qualify for SSDI you have to meet the federal requirements. And, they are really cracking down on fraud. Now, if you only have a low-paying job, SSDI usually calculates your top 5 quarters...which won't be a lot. If you paid in a lot, your SSDI amount will be a lot.
Hope this helps!
elizabeth
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Kelly Porter <kellyporter@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>Dave,
>
>It is based on how much you pay in, but it considers your income from
>your whole working life, the last years are not weighted heavier. The
>amount you get is the amount you would get if you were to have retire on
>the day you became disabled. Most people end up getting about 60% of
>the average salary that they made over the course of their working
>years. So take the salary you made each year, add it up, divide by the
>number of years, multiple by 60%. This is a rough estimate of what
>someone gets.
>
>Kelly
>
>
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>On 8/26/2011 7:17 AM, Dave Fales wrote:
>> what you get can't depend on what you paid in because my last job was a wild land fire fighter and I got paid a lot and paid in a ton and I only get like 640 per month it makes it hard to live on
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