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The maximum annual income limit you can earn before losing some of your benefit, is adjusted up annually from year to year. When I retired in 2010, it was $14,400. But this is only "earned" income, not income from assets or retirement funds. You have to earn it, like wages or a salary. And then when you turn full retirement age, you can earn as much as you want without being penalized. Full retirement age is different depending on when you were born. For me it was 66 year old. I'm 67 now and can earn as much as I want without a penalty..

Right now the sum is one thousand and seventy dollars a month; next year it’ll be one thousand and ninety dollars a month. I know this because I’ve been on SSD for some time working out serious mental problems and restructuring my life. My SSD comes from my work history, which is good. I haven’t liked it, but I’ve been working on building my own business and facing serious demons that I’ve been unable to face in the past. I’ll be off it shortly, so please don’t flame me.

I support SSD and SSI if it means keeping people off the streets.

Not everyone has a family to fall back on and I assure you that not everyone on assistance is lazy or shiftless.