Can you own a motorcycle on ssi disability?

It is entirely possible that your purchase of a motorcycle for your personal use, and your use of it, might affect the review of your Social Security Disability benefits and the continuing determination that you are still disabled. A favorable decision by an Administrative Law Judge (the hearing officer you usually see before being awarded benefits) is dependant on the ALJ's findings that your medical problems prevented your working at substantive gainful employment; it appears, on the surface, that the purchase and use of a motorcycle suggests that your motor and exertional (your strenghts to do things) capacity have improved, and now, you are able to work at some jobs in the national economy. The issue, basically, is the Adminstration's determination concerning your ability to do work. Being able to ride and use a motorcycle suggests more physical ability, such as an ability to sit, to balance, to make fine judgments and distinctions, to experience a wide variety of changes in the environment, use you arms and body in fairly vigorous exertion, than you usually encounter is a person who is disabled. Next, depending on the source of your benefits, that is SSI, or SSDI, the ownership of the motorcycle might cause your assets to excede the limits permited by the state system which administers the federal program which pays your benefits. This question cannot be answered without much more information. The Social Security Administration's local office can and could help you with the answer to the question. This is the kind of question they deal with every day; further, they would have the facts in your paticular case.