The California EDD must have processed my return to work form since they sent me another check for 1/28 and 1/29. Looking at the check stub, I realized I screwed up the dates again. I must have misread the form and put in the wrong dates. There is a field for recovery date and another one for return to work date. Like an idiot, I put down 1/30 for both instead of 1/31 for return to work date. I was actually still out on leave on 1/30, which means no pay from work. The difference for one day of disability is $178.66 before taxes. To change my return to work date and get that money will require a doctor to fill out a four page form. $180 can buy a nice meal but I think I’m going to forget it. It’s going to look very stupid filling out another disability justification form for just one day when I’ve been ok for the past few weeks.

At least now I know to read the damn forms more carefully. I will need to to all this again in a few months if the live donor kidney transplant goes through. The recovery for that is also around three months.

I got another disability check from the EDD today. It’s payment for 1/14/2020 through 1/27/2020. My cardiologist had told them that I would be out on disability until 2/14/2020 but I’m actually ending my leave on 1/30/2020. I believe it’s a big no no to get state disability pay if you are getting paid from your employer. I went online and filled out a DE2587 (Recovery or Return to Work Certification) form so hopefully they will process the form and just pay me for a few more days instead of two more weeks.

Crap! I just noticed it said to mail in the form. Of course it does not provide an address. Why would they want me to mail a form that was generated online? Is this the best technology the state of California can come up with? I’m glad that I was able to get some disability payments while I was on medical leave but the less I have to deal with the EDD, the better.

Also, I completed the form on my iPad and could not figure out how to save the PDF. The above is a snip of a screenshot from the iPad. In my attempt to save or export the PDF, the message this from came from was deleted. Of course there is no other way to get to the form other than the Inbox message. At least I got a screenshot.