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One of the least fruitful phases of the Social Security disability process is called the Request for Reconsideration. This phase occurs when disability applicants appeal an initial medical denial from the Social Security Administration. Considering that Social Security denies approximately 75 percent of all initial applications, you can bet there are plenty of people each… Read more »

The Social Security disability process can be a confusing one. Below are some common questions related to the disability process and the straight-forward answers. Is there an income and asset limit to receive Social Security disability benefits? One thing to remember is there are different types of disability benefits Social Security offers. The two most… Read more »

Sometimes when someone is receiving Social Security disability benefits, those benefits will stop for a variety of reasons. A major reason someone stops receiving either Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments is that they went back to work and are no longer considered disabled by the Social Security Administration. If… Read more »

Frustration is a common word associated with the Social Security disability process. Those who have gone through the process know this all too well. There is frustration about the high denial rates, there is frustration over how long the process takes, which can be the better part of two years for most people, and there… Read more »

I hate to be a cynic, despite the fact that I would like to think that we are all in this journey of life together and that we all lookout for one another, but I also have to live in reality rather than fantasyland. There is of course a sizable portion of the population who… Read more »

The Social Security Administration, this February, announced the agency’s new initiative to expedite disability claims for veterans who have received 100 percent (Permanent and Total) disability rating from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under this new initiative, Social Security is supposed to treat these veteran’s Social Security disability applications as high priority and issue expedited… Read more »

Quite some time now Social Security had indicated that it would be hiring up to 250 new Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) in an effort to ease the backlog of disability cases that have been waiting for a hearing. The good news is the process to hire these ALJs has begun, but it will still be… Read more »

The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides many online services to recipients of both Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) or Supplemental Security Income benefits (SSI). For people currently receiving benefits, the SSA allows them to create a “My Social Security” account. You can create the account by going to the SSA’s website. Please click here for a direct link…. Read more »

Some people are under the impression that because they are two different programs, a person is able to collect both Social Security disability payments as well as Social Security retirement payments, but that is not the case. If you think about it, it makes sense that you would not be able to receive payments from… Read more »