SSDRC




What is the Application Process for Social Security Disability and SSI?

How do you Win Benefits under Social Security Disability or SSI?

If I am determined disabled, how far back will Social Security pay benefits?

How do you prove your disability case if you have a mental condition?

What Can I Do to Improve My Chances of Winning Disability Benefits

Common Mistakes after Receiving a Denial of Social Security Disability or SSI Benefits

How to File for Disability - Tips for Filing

If You Get Approved For SSDI Will You Also Get Medicare?

How much does a Social Security disability attorney get paid?

Social Security Disability SSI Criteria and the Evaluation Process

How long does it take to be approved for SSI or Social Security disability?

What do you Need to Prove to Qualify for Disability Benefits?

Social Security Disability SSI and Fibromyalgia

Social Security Disability SSI and Degenerative Disc Disease

Can I Qualify For Disability and Receive Benefits based on Depression?

Answers to questions about SSD and SSI disability

What Disabilities Qualify for SSI and Social Security Disability Benefits?

Social Security Disability Status

Social Security Disability Tips — how a claim gets worked on

Social Security Disability, SSI Disability - Terms, Definitions, Concepts


Advice for a Social Security Disability Continuing Review


How to prove you are disabled
and win disability benefits

 
If it is time for your continuing disability review (most disability beneficiaries have a review every three years), the Social Security Administration will contact you and you will most likely be notified of the review by letter. The letter will either ask you to fill out the enclosed paperwork and return it by a certain date, or inform you that you have been scheduled for a telephone appointment, or face to face interview with a claims representative at your local Social Security office.

Whatever the method of contact, make sure that you respond to the Social Security contact person mentioned in the letter. If you have been scheduled for a telephone interview, or in-person interview, and you know that you will be unable to complete the necessary information at that time, you should call and ask to have your continuing disability review appointment changed to a more convenient date.

The continuing disability review paperwork is the same for all contact methods. What information does the continuing disability review paperwork request? Well, for one thing, you will need to provide your physicians' names, addresses, and treatment dates since your last review or decision (if this is your first review). If you have engaged in any type of work activity, be prepared to give details as to the length of time you worked, how many hours per week you worked, your hourly pay, and what your job duties were, or are.

If you are prepared with the above information, your interview should go smoothly and take only a few minutes. Remember, if you are mailing in your continuing disability review forms be sure to fill them out completely and sign all paperwork that requires a signature.

More information at the CDR or continuing disability review process can be found here:

Will my disability case be reviewed after I have been approved for disability benefits?














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Individual Questions and Answers


  • How long does it take receive disability benefits after you are approved?

  • Is There Social Security Disability For Children?

  • How Likely are You to Win Your Disability Case?

  • What is Social Security Back Pay?

  • Applying for disability benefits in Georgia

  • If you are applying for Social Security disability when does Medicare start ?

  • Why was I denied social security disability?

  • SSI Benefits - what do they include and how long does it take

  • Social Security Disability Claim Denied and what to do about it

  • Do Most Social Security Disability Reconsiderations Get Turned Down?

  • Do you get medical health care coverage with SSI ?

  • List of Impairments for Social Security Disability and SSI Benefits

  • Has my Disability Claim Been Approved?

  • Your Medical Condition and Social Security Disability or SSI

  • Disability Hearings - how many are won?

  • Do You have A Chance Of Losing Disability Benefits If Your Case Gets Reviewed?

  • How does Social Security consider lupus as a disability?

  • Applying for disability benefits in Nebraska

  • How is the Determination for Disability made by Social Security?

  • To get Social security Disability or SSI do you have to have Total Disability?

  • Hiring a Qualified Disability Lawyer in Louisiana

  • COPD, Social Security Disability, and Applying for Benefits

  • How Does Social Security Disability Make Its Decision?

  • The Time Involved on a Social Security Disability Decision
























    SSD and SSI are Federal Programs

    The title II Social Security Disability and title 16 SSI Disability programs operate under federal guidelines and, therefore, the program requirements--medical and non-medical--apply to all states:

    Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

    Recent approval and denial statistics for various states can be viewed here:

    Social Security Disability, SSI Approval and Denial Statistics by state

    Special Section: Disability Lawyers and unnecessary claim denials