Insurance Information No. (246)
Many questions are being received from retirees receiving a permanent total disability pension, asking about the Social Security Law's position on them if they return to the job market and receive a salary for doing so.
The truth is that the Social Security Law was clear regarding any insured person who was allocated a permanent total disability pension, as it permanently excluded him from the scope of application of its provisions. This means that if the recipient of this pension returns to any job covered by the provisions of the Social Security Law, i.e., he returns to work in an establishment obligated to include its workers in the provisions of the Social Security Law, then the provisions of the law do not apply to him at all, as he has become permanently outside its scope and may not be re-covered by the Social Security Law. Thus, he can combine the permanent total disability pension that he receives from the Social Security Law and his wages from the job he returned to, without one detracting from the other and without him being covered by the Social Security Law again, as I mentioned.
Therefore, I call on any Social Security retiree who receives a permanent total disability pension, if he is able to take up any job, to do so, and his pension from Social Security will not be affected at all.