Just a quick question. Since I know NOTHING about any of this stuff I am just curious about the amound of support someone could get from SSI or SD (I think it was SSD, I do not remember.
Is it like Unemployment or disability insurance through one's employer? Before my back surgery and all of the pain that came with it, I was working somewhere between 40-55 hours a week. I developed and implemented a minority mentor program at the college I worked at so it took a lot of time to get off and running.
Therefore when I went on short term disability I thought I would be receiving a lot more money each week since I have had heard of other people that have received unemployment benefits and I believe that was configured by looking at the persons work history and taking the period of time where they had worked the most hours. They would then calculate the benefits from that. Meaning that the amount of money received would increase depending on what work period they look at.
I really hoped that was what would happen, but with my short term disability my coverage it is not based on the weeks I worked 40-55 hours. It is based on a the specific amount of hours that are noted in my file as the hours I was hired to work. So because I needed to get the program going and needed to spend more time than was originally allocated on my hire documents, it did not influence the total amount of monies I was able to get.
Hey, at least I am getting 70%. It is better than nothing. But because I do not have a lot of time left with this claim and I am nowhere near to being ready to go back to work, I was curious how the government calculated the amount of money that goes to each person on SSI or any of the government programs.
Does the check come each week or what? And about that insurance, does everyone that goes on the SSI and the other one mentioned receive insurance? I had no idea that any of this even existed. I really thought that SS was only for those over 55 or for the people who were seriously ill (as in mentally incapacitated, or physically unable to take care of themselves.
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