If you are a service related, disabled veteran, you are not receiving SSDI you are receiving VA Disability Compensation benefits based on the degree of your disability. These are based on both temporary and permanent disabilities. They are re evaluated periodically to determine if there has been a change. If there is improvement they can lower your benefits. It also works in reverse. So if you are getting your check from the VA you can earn all you want without penalties. However they may use that as proof of improvement and reduce or stop your benefits altogether depending on the amount of work you are doing.However if you, like me, are a veteran who happens to be disabled by a non service related disability then yes, you can collect SSDI and work outside the US to earn money. But you have to report that earned income. You must pay the penalties on anything over the amount allowed of around $1180 a month. You can still earn more but you lose up to 50 cents on the dollar for everything over the maximum allowed.Thereu2019s no shortage of people looking for ways to skirt the system and I see this as one more attempt. Disability income is not Welfare and not designed to support a person in a comfortable lifestyle. It is based on the benefits you payed into the system and prorated forward as if you continued to work to retirement at the last rate you were earning when you became disabled.As said they allow earning up to around $1,180.00 a month to supplement that income but any more us indication you can earn money in spite of your disability and thus donu2019t need it. If they made it easy to live on disability people would abuse the system such as what it seems you are suggesting.