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What is the maximum back pay you can get for Social Security disability ?


There is no maximum back pay amount that a Social Security disability beneficiary can receive. Social Security back pay is based on a disabled beneficiary’s established date of entitlement (the first month that you are entitled to receive a disability payment from either social security disability or SSI disability).

Back pay becomes significant when you have to go to an administrative law judge hearing for your disability approval. Social Security has significant backlogs for administrative law judge hearings, therefore it could take many months to receive a hearing, and because of this back pay amounts are often sizeable, sometimes approaching amounts in the tens of thousands of dollars.



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