Employed/Unemployed/Retired???

[0485c10]

For people on disability, when you encounter a question on a form that asks you your employment status. Disability is never one of the options. Which do you select?

For the past 7 years i have selected Unemployed. I am encountering it again--i think this time i will select Retired. And call it "disability-retired" in my mind. Before I guess I called "disability-unemployed" in my mind. What do you do? Think it makes a difference?

[wrest53]

Employeed/Unemployed/Retired

I always use "retired", unless disabled is an option. I say that when someone asks why I'm home all day too. We have some nosy people at the complex where I live. I just smile and agree how lucky I am to have "retired" in my 50's.

[0485c10]

I'm so glad you wrote in your response about the nosy people in your complex. I think I will use retirred from now on when disabled isn't an option too.

[Hawkgirl]

Ouch. I'm 39 years old and I will never work again. If "disabled" is not an option, I check "retired." I get so much mail for things that a 70-year-old person would need. I think SSDI sells my info. I have been "retired" since I was 30 years old. That makes me so sad.

[erica1000]

I struggle with this as well. Disabled is typically not an option on forms so I check "homemaker" or "retired".

[Thinkimjob]

I'd write 'disabled' on the form, in pen. I do that when I have to vote and there's no-one worth voting for. (Voting is compulsory in Australia, federal, state, local council.) I draw a box, write 'none of the above' and tick it.

[gomer]

I was/used medically retired before 40, at least that is what I used. I hated to admit I was on disability.

I tried to avoid going on SSDI, till it was a matter of survival. I could work but I could not pass a physical for any job I could actually do. I even went thru voc rehab who wrote me off. They said I was being "unreasonable" to expect employment. MY neuro issues were chalked up to my being diabetic. Now we know it was the MS all this time.

Gomer Great topic..

[0485c10]

Medically retired...that was the term i was looking for not disabilty retired. medically retired sounds classier, thanks.

[BigA]

I'd write 'disabled' on the form, in pen. I do that when I have to vote and there's no-one worth voting for. (Voting is compulsory in Australia, federal, state, local council.) I draw a box, write 'none of the above' and tick it.

Isn't that funny. Compulsory voting is the height of irony and your solution points that out.