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:( JamesBreckenridge, carlie and other members who have opinions on this subject: How much annual salary can you make if you are rated TDIU w/ P & T?

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I agree with Poolguy.

I am all for "pushing the envelope" to maximize your benefits, but collecting an "annual salary" from one person while telling someone else you are totally disabled and can't work comes very close to fraud even tho I know many of us have "good days" and "bad days". An "annual salary" certainly implies that you are working full time for a year.

IMHO there is a difference between accepting pay for helping your neighbor fixing his car or cutting his grass, but if you are going to work 5 days a week for 3 months or more while drawing IU, then you are "pushing an envelope" that will "push back".

I like to do things that enable me to sleep well at night. And collecting an annual salary while collecting IU would definately be a source of worry, and I wouldnt do it. I think you could do yard sales during the summer, or even plow snow during the winter, but I would not touch a Full time job while getting IU with a ten foot pole regardless of the "annual salary" JMHO.

it was just a simple question. if i was tdiu i would not do it & i would advise another vet not do it. it was just a question, i was curious.

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If ya wanna and can work, fulltime, do it. Just tell the VA and cancel your TDIU. Sounds like you want to commit fraud, ie; collect disability for not being able to work and work fulltime? jmo

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:( JamesBreckenridge, carlie and other members who have opinions on this subject: How much annual salary can you make if you are rated TDIU w/ P & T?

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How would home work/computer worker from you own home play into this...I think some claim to earn as much as 5,000 a month, what affect would that have on your IU status. To all, please reply...Not that I am looking to become IU, I am 43, IU would all but send me scatty.

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How would home work/computer worker from you own home play into this...I think some claim to earn as much as 5,000 a month, what affect would that have on your IU status. To all, please reply...Not that I am looking to become IU, I am 43, IU would all but send me scatty.

Vet Joe may have an eighth grade education and be a truck driver. Vet Mack may be an officer with a professional degree. Both may have identical disabilities. If they each go to their C&P exam, the examiner may say "due to the vet's physical disabilities, they would not be able to do strenuous labor, but could perhaps perform a sedentary desk job." Joe is going to get IU, but Mack isn't. Joe is not very likely, given his age, education, and location to be able to find such a job. Mack at least has a chance.

If Joe buys those lessons from "The Video Professor" and becomes, I don't know, some kind of tele-worker, or say he sells paintings that his cat makes, or whatever. If he reports that income to the IRS, and it's substantial, he'll lose his IU. Remember, when you have IU, you have to fill out a form each year stating how much, if any, that you have earned in the previous year. The VA doesn't care if you worked for someone else in a factory, or worked at home as your own boss. What matters is the income that you report.

We compare notes with the IRS.

And nobody wants to lie to the IRS.

*/ The comments and opinions expressed above are solely those of the commenter in their personal capacity and do not in any way represent the Department of Veterans Affairs. */

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For many years I have felt that sometimes the long delays in processing claims is to motivate claimants to go back to work

Veterans deserve real choice for their health care.

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If ya wanna and can work, fulltime, do it. Just tell the VA and cancel your TDIU. Sounds like you want to commit fraud, ie; collect disability for not being able to work and work fulltime? jmo

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pr, all i did was ask a simple question. why is some of u all are jumping the gun? I can not work because of my sc'ed injuries, i do not desire to work that why i put in for tdiu.

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