Can a person go to college while still receiving disability benefits

0:18 Good day, and welcome to another edition of Yours Q and DA Social Security Disability Today. Let's get to your questions. Can I go to college on a grant and still keep my disability benefits going? I know I focused on this a few times, and here's what I tell people. But going to college in and of itself is not the main inquiry you need to be asking.

0:40 You need to ask yourself. First of all, let's start with one thing. The grant has nothing to do with your social scurity disability benefits unless you're getting SSI. That money you may have maybe may cause a reduction of what you're getting. The focus is how are you doing those classes? And what I mean by how are you doing those classes? This is what I mean. Are you going two days a week? Are you going four days a week? Are you going one hour a day or two or three hours a day? How often are you studying? Are you having to study all day? Are there special circumstances under how you study? Do you have to study at home? Do you have to only study at night? Do you have to take multiple rest breaks so you're laying down in bed in order to

1:12 study? Do you have problem focusing? Have you had to retake any classes. Now, you're probably slow down. I said, the reason why I'm going so quickly is because I need you to understand a lot of times I have people who talking about I want to go back to school, but you're worried about how it's going to affect your benefits. The question you need to be asking yourself is give a detailed breakdown as to the circumstances behind your going to school. Take yourself through a normal school. We can ask yourself everything.

1:44 Ask yourself. Are you able to make it through a class? Are you sitting in classroom or are you doing online courses? Have you had to repeat courses? And if you did, why did you have to repeat courses? Did you have to repeat courses due to your medical can editions? Does the school know about your medical condition? Have they had to provide any accommodations because of your medical condition? Did you have to repeat any courses due to your medical conditions? During the course of the week? What are the most number of classes that you can take? Have you taken the most number of classes? Have you had problems when you've done that? When do you do your homework? Do you have to do your homework in a way different from

2:20 the rest class. You have to be able to explain in detail all of your circumstances because those are the things they're going to want to know, because those are the things that they're going to want to know. Whether in order to properly determine whether you're going to college is an indicative of your ability to actually go back into work, because there's certain things that you can expect when you're in college you have to have to do. You have to have the ability to reason, to rationalize. You should be able to do simple repetitive work. You have to be able to concentrate maintaining certain persistence in terms of following the law at a certain pace with the coursework. They're going to want

2:53 to look at all those things. And if you're talking about two or three hours a day, are you studying all those days as well? If you're going to class three hours every other day Monday through Friday, and then you're studying three two three hours a day, that's you know, that's a good two three hours a day. You're talking about twelve hours. Can you do more than that? You gotta to look at the circumstances behind you going to school. Those are the things that they really want to focus on. Again, this is Attorney Anthony Reads and as always, keep those questions coming.

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