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 is frustration over how difficult it is to get in contact with a Social Security employee.
Frustrations usually last throughout the process including and even exceeding the time in which a claimant finds out they have been found disabled because the next frustration is waiting to receive money.
Learning that you’ve been found disabled by Social Security is usually a relief, but this relief can turn into anxiety and anxiousness when people are waiting for their first payment from Social Security.
Although there are many things a person can get angry over while dealing with Social Security, payment issues are not always the fault of Social Security believe it or not.
Of course there are plenty of incidents where the money is available, but Social Security drags its fee in issuing payments to beneficiaries, but sometimes it is actually the Treasury Department’s fault.
Unbeknownst to most people, Social Security payments don’t actually come from Social Security. The Treasury Department issues Social Security checks after the agency authorizes the payments.
Another little known fact is that the Treasury Department actually stops sending payments to recipients towards the latter end of months for some reason. This means that if Social Security authorizes payment to a beneficiary on say the 25th of the month the Treasury Department is likely to wait until the first of the next month to actually send out payments. Who knew this was actually a thing? We actually learned it from a blog posted on another site.
