Earlier this month the Social Security Administration announced it would add 25 new illnesses to it list of Compassionate Allowance conditions, related to proving applicants with monthly Social Security disability benefits. Conditions listed under Social Security’s Compassionate Allowance programs are conditions where Social Security is supposed to expedite the processing of disability claim because the… Read more »
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Estimating Your Social Security Benefits
Applicants who apply for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits always want to know how much of a benefit they will receive each month if Social Security ultimately finds them disabled. There is not a precise way to determine monthly disability amounts online, but there is a way to estimate full retirement benefits, which end… Read more »
Osteoarthritis and Social Security Disability
When evaluating a claim for Social Security disability, it’s not a specific condition that makes more of a difference in whether a claim is successful, but how that condition impacts an applicant’s ability to work. It is true that certain conditions, mainly life-threatening conditions, are supposed to automatically qualify you for either Social Security Disability… Read more »
Payment Waiting Period for SSDI Benefits
The Social Security disability process is littered with emotional highs and lows. One example is the five-month waiting period disabled workers are faced with when they are approved for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Many times Social Security disability applicants express a sigh of relief when they find out they are approved for SSDI, but… Read more »
Expediting Claims for Suicidal or Homicidal
For a variety of circumstances applicants may be able to receive expedited processing of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits and bypass the potential wait time of up to two years that most disability applicants face if they continue to appeal medical denials on claims. Unfortunately, most people who venture into the Social Security disability… Read more »
How Child Support can Impact your Social Security
The federal Office of Child Support Enforcement estimated that more than $100 billion in ordered child support went unpaid in 2009. About $53 million of this unpaid amount was owed to the government due to a lack of public assistance reimbursements. These numbers have influenced governments to more arduously go after child support payments from… Read more »
Disability Benefits for Wounded Warriors
For a variety of circumstances applicants may be able to receive expedited processing of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits and bypass the potential wait time of up to two years that most disability applicants face if they continue to appeal medical denials on claims. Unfortunately, most people who venture into the Social Security disability… Read more »
Fraud in Social Security is Rare
Despite what you may have seen on television or read online, Social Security disability is not a program where fraud is running rampant where non-disabled workers are collecting checks that are costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars every year. To the contrary, there appears to be very little fraud within the Social Security disability program,… Read more »
Work Incentives For People Who Receive Disability Insurance Benefits
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has created special rules to encourage recipients of Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB) to return to work. In order to be eligible to receive DIB benefits you must have a medical impairment(s) that prevents you from maintaining substantial gainful employment (SGA) for at least 12 months. In 2013, the SSA values… Read more »
ALJs Sue to Decrease Workload
Administrative Law Judges have banned together to sue the Social Security Administration because ALJs are expected to decide as many as 700 disability claims a year, which has resulted in rushed decisions and possibly even improper decisions that may have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. “The Social Security Administration seems to care only about quotas,”… Read more »
