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Good Question

Published on April 11, 2008

Northwest Fair Housing asked the Center to research whether a person’s eligibility for Social Security/Social Security Disability payments would be compromised by their receiving monetary payments resulting from a lawsuit judgment. The Center collaborated with Community Minded Enterprises to quickly determine that lawsuit payments would not make a person ineligible for SSI/SSDI.