You can move abroad on SSDI. You cannot move abroad on SSI. Know the difference. SSDI is Social Security Disability Insurance. You earned it through working. It follows you to other countries and counts as passive income for visa applications. SSI is Supplemental Security Income. It's need-based and requires you to live in the US. Leave for 30+ days and your payments stop. If you're on SSDI, you're not stuck in America. Your benefits will continue in most countries, and passive income visa programs accept SSDI as qualifying income. The average SSDI payment is enough to meet income requirements in multiple countries. You just need to know which ones and how to apply. Link in bio for consultations on moving abroad with disability income. ππΊπΈ #creatorsearchinsights
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One of the routes I help people take to Move Abroad is using passive income in order to get a visa abroad. And people ask me constantly about disability payments if they can use their disability to move abroad. And the answer is yes, sometimes. If you are receiving disability through SSDI, you can absolutely take those disability payments, use them as passive income to get a visa somewhere internationally and move abroad with those payments, totally allowed. If however, you are getting SSI, that has to stay in the United States. So SSI is a welfare based program, whereas SSDI is something that you paid into and earned based on your payroll taxes over the years. So those are the discrepancies between the two different types of disability payments, but if you are somebody who's earning SSDI payments and you would like to move abroad, I can absolutely help you with that. Passive income is one of the types of income I help Americans use to get qualified form visas around the world. And if you're ready to figure out which countries you qualified to live in with those disability payments, the links to work with me are in my bio.
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