You should consistently report wages during the first six days (SSI) or ten days (SSDI) of the month to help prevent overpayments and underpayments. You can report wages by calling your local Social Security Office first. You should ask about our options to use the automated toll-free SSI Telephone Wage Reporting Service, the free SSA Mobile Wage Reporting app, or the my Social Security online wage reporting tool. (requires you to contact SSA first to add your employer(s).

Because of a Work Incentive called Expedited Reinstatement of Benefits (EXR), if you had to stop working due to your disability, you could request to have your benefits reinstated without having to complete a new application. The Expedited Reinstatement provision allows you to receive up to 6 months of temporary cash benefits while SSA conducts a medical review to decide if they can reinstate your benefits. You may also be eligible for Medicare and/or Medicaid during this provisional benefit period as well. You can request Expedited Reinstatement within 5 years from the month your benefits stopped (terminated). Your Medicare benefits may be protected for at least 7 years and 9 months. For more details on how to do Expedited Reinstatement, please contact a Benefits Specialist at ERS. You may also contact your local Social Security office.

Every 12 months after you assign your Ticket to Work to an EN, we must decide if you are making the expected progress toward your vocational goal. An annual progress review will be performed every 12 months to determine your progress according to the Timely Progress Guidelines. You are required to show progress in one or more of several areas including Work/Earnings, Education, and/or Training at the time of the review to remain eligible for Continuing Disability Review (CDR) protection under the Ticket to Work program. Failure to complete this review may result in the loss of the Continuing Disability Review exemption benefit.

• Ticketholders working with service providers are not guaranteed protection from a Medical Continuing Disability Review (CDR)
• Ticketholders must be making timely progress and meet all other requirements
• Must complete successful re-entry after a TPR failure to regain protection from a Medical CDR
• Passing a TPR renews the Medical CDR exemption for at least 12 additional months
• Service providers are responsible for assisting Ticketholders through the TPR process

A new Trial Work Period (TWP) is only given upon completion of the Expedited Reinstatement of Benefits after benefit termination, with a favorable decision being reached by SSA and 24 months of cash benefits have been received (Initial Reinstatement Period).

ERS helps you track your earnings to help prevent an overpayment from occurring and to guide and prepare you as you increase your earnings to reach self-sufficiency.

You can request that your benefits start again without having to complete a new application if your benefits ended because you worked and had earnings. Provisional (temporary) benefits for up to six months may be given by SSA while they determine when you are able to receive benefits again. You must not have an active overpayment of benefits with Social Security.

You are eligible if you are an SSDI or SSI beneficiary who:

• Stopped getting benefits because of earnings from work.
• Are unable to work or perform steady gainful activity.
• Are disabled because of an impairment(s) that is the same as or related to the impairment(s) that allowed you to get benefits earlier.
• Make the request within five years from the month your benefits ended.