[JoeS21]

What does, "60% of a full time course load for one year," mean? The context is making timely progress in Social Security Disability's Ticket To Work Program. Example on chart here, http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10062.pdf

Can you give an example of how to fulfill that requirement?

(I am asking elsewhere AND asking here. The sooner and more thoroughly this question can be answered, the better.)

[unaluna]

Its probably approximate, not exact. If a vocational training course takes a year to complete, they give you 3 years. But they want you to be more than half way done by the end of the first year. Its not 1/3, 1/3, 1,3. Its 60 pct done, then do at least another 15 pct, then slide the remaining 25 pct home. It looks like the want to motivate you for that first year but probably give you some breathing room if you come close. But dont to like 25 pct the first year and say you will make it up the following two years - they say theyre not buying that.

[Perna]

I think it is pretty straightforward: "Completed 60 percent of full-time course load for 1 year" means, if you have to have 12 credits to be considered full-time (what is considered full-time for financial aid) then you have to complete more than 7 credits to still be in the program (7.2 is 60% of 12). So, if you are taking 4 courses of 3 credits each, you would need to complete 3 of those 4 within a year. The rub is that you cannot just take 1 at a time because then you would not be full-time and there are a couple of semesters in the year so you would have to take 4 courses in the Fall and 4 in the Spring and pass at least 3 each semester. It generally takes 15 credits a semester to finish a 2 year program in 2 years.

[JoeS21]

Since I've been on the ticket to work plan for 6 months now, I guess I'm too late for this one. I'm still going to call them and ask if I can switch from trying to find employment in order to make "satisfactory progress," to trying to take classes to make "satisfactory progress." The former didn't work for me... CDR, here I come. :-(

[Rose76]

I'm eager to know the answer, if you find out.

When I was first in college, 15 credits was the standard full-time load. 60% of that would be 9 credits. I know that, in more recent years, 12 credits has been considered full-time. 60% of that would be 8 credits.