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July 25, 2008

Working while on SS Disability Insurance

When we find the need or ability to go back to work with MS, many are frightened at the thought of losing all of the hard-earned disability benefits. Who could blame us when it can sometimes be such a difficult task to be deemed worthy by the system.

Yesterday, before our monthly HealthTalk MS webcast on Letting Go of Your MS Guilt , I spent an hour and a half with a local non-profit counselor on the very topic. Im a pretty savvy guy and have done a fair amount of reading on the topic. Reading the Social Security Red Book can, however, be like reading Egyptian hieroglyphs prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.

I learned so much from that meeting that Ive invited the counselor to speak at my MS Poker Night on the topics of leaving work, SSDI and doing some