Legal Question

What labor laws? Truck drivers are exempt from almost all labor laws. Pay and hours being the biggest two.

He would have to be hired on, treated as an employee with all the paperwork that entails. He can have a pay rate of one penny a mile, or 1 dollar a week or whatever. He, however, has to have a full driver qualification file, insurance, drug pool, etc.

Double check with pension, but most allow one to make x amount before the pension is cut back.

 

Why complicate it, make him a 1/10% partner. No payroll taxes, no comp. Buy an occupational policy for him. Employee under FMCSA is not the same as employee for the IRS.

 

By retire vet do you mean 100% disabled vet? If he is, then is he 100% secular or 100% TDIU?

100% secular he won't lose anything if he is employed. The 100% TDIU causes a problem, but there are special rules around it if employed by family.

SSDI allows him to work. Just an income limit. Also, they have different rules for working for family too.

You can contact VA or a service rep like DAV for guidance. Also, SS will help you too. My advice is get everything in writing. That way you have proof incase they call him in for a reevaluation.

Little story. Friend is on SSDI. She rented out her house, she had it managed by a property co. For tax purposes it was counted as personal income not as rental income. She filed taxes.

That yr she got called into SS for working. She explained that she didn't work or actually even managed the property and brought in the paperwork to show them.

The person doing her eval said she was legal in renting out her property, but if she continued to file taxes the exact way she did it would flag her an eval every yr. She quit filing that way & hasn't had another eval.

 

His job makes him an employee vs. contractor. Him being a truck driver means wage laws don't apply.

 

I have no knowledge of VA stuff, but with regular Social security , they absolute will dock you , dollar for dollar , if you report any income on your tax return.

my father retired and then got bored and took a part time job, he quit as soon as he realized he was working for free.

he then found part time job that paid in cash.

 

Nope for SSI. At least automatically.
I forget the exact numbers, but one could make something like 8,000 a year before they lost any money. From there you could make up to something like 12,000 and loose 50 cents for every dollar made.

 

Transportation workers are exempt from certain provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. I'm not aware of any other laws that don't apply.