[Yokuutsu]

Not here. You work, they take at least a portion of it away. They can take it away if they decide that because my aunt and uncle can do a garden that they can work....which they haven't, but it could happen.

And that thing you're talking about is a special program within Disability for those not permanently/completely disabled. It also cuts down by quite a bit the SSI check you get from the governmental pamphlet I'm looking at.

If your only income besides SSI is
the money you make from your job,
then we do not count the first $85 of
your monthly earnings. We deduct
from your SSI payments 50 cents
of every dollar you earn after the
$85 deduction.

So for every dollar beyond 85, you essentially lose half the dollar. (Though it won't be reflected in your pay check, it would be reflected in your SSI check) Which means making 1k means you'd lose over 400 dollars of your SSI check.