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How Earnings and Work Attempts Now Impact the Claim Considering the 2024 Rulings

Presented by Freddie Effinger, Esq.

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2026 NADR CONFERENCE SEssion

In this session, Freddie Effinger Esq., explains how work activity interacts with Social Security disability eligibility in an era of long processing delays and evolving SSA policies. Participants will learn practical strategies for handling earnings issues, including unsuccessful work attempts, subsidies, and impairment-related work expenses.
 
Recorded on March 23, 2026 in Plano Texas

Work activity and disability eligibility

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In this practical and thought-provoking session, Freddie Effinger, Esq. explores one of the most complicated issues in Social Security disability representation: how work activity interacts with disability eligibility. Drawing on real cases, current policy developments, and front-line advocacy experience, the presentation examines why more claimants are attempting to work while waiting for disability decisions and how SSA's processing delays, policy shifts, and overpayment practices are reshaping the disability landscape.

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What you will learn

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  • Explain how SSA processing delays increase work attempts

  • Spot how earnings issues create SGA disputes and overpayment exposure

  • Use UWAs, subsidies, and IRWEs to evaluate work activity

  • Ask targeted client interview questions to uncover decisive work evidence

  • Apply practical steps to address earnings issues and preserve disability eligibility

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