Once you send your scores, it will take about 10-15 days to reach the schools you're applying to :)
A discouraged worker is someone who has given up looking for work and has left the labor market. The United States government does not treat discouraged workers as unemployed people because they are not actively looking for work. This creates some counterintuitive results when calculating the unemployment rate.
There is a maximum and it is called SGA, which stands for substantial gainful activity. It corresponds to a specific earnings limit that is the cutoff point at which a person, based on their work activity, is no longer considered disabled.