Social Security Disability

Whether you have applied for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, you will have questions throughout the process. More often than not, you’ll be wondering what the status of your claim is. Fortunately, there are a variety of ways that you can keep tabs on…

We recently discussed Social Security Administration’s Compassionate Allowance program that allows certain applicants to be fast-tracked for benefits on the diagnosis of a specific condition alone. For applicants who have been diagnosed with a terminal disease, Social Security also allows for an expedited review process called the TERI (terminal illness)…

For years, long wait times have plagued the Social Security disability benefits process. Unfortunately for many people, their conditions are so severe that any wait for benefits could be disastrous. Therefore, in 2008, the Social Security Administration (SSA) developed the Compassionate Allowance Initiative, and it can be applied to both…

Although the mental health disability criteria to obtain Social Security disability (SSD) benefits are like those required for physical disabilities, the Social Security Administration evaluates them somewhat differently. Here, we discuss the elements Social Security looks for when deciding whether to accept a mental health claimant’s application for disability benefits….

When exploring the options available with Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, and regular Social Security retirement benefits, many people wonder if collecting income while receiving Social Security benefits is an option. And, in the case of SSI that is a means-tested program, how “limited” does…

Great news! It took months after you submitted your disability application to have your hearing scheduled, and the date is finally approaching. Is it possible that after all that time, you’re hearing might be postponed? Unfortunately, yes. But it may be because of circumstances outside your control, and you might…

Once your Social Security disability hearing is over, you’ll probably breathe a sigh of relief. After all, you scrambled to find every piece of paperwork that Social Security asked for when you applied for disability benefits, and you prepared diligently for the questions that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) would…

Although Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are federal benefits programs, there are some considerations that need to be made at the state level. When you file your application for SSDI or SSI as a resident of New York, a New York State Division of Disability…

You might have heard that the Social Security Administration (SSA) has been working to combat a years-long case backlog; benefits that should only take months to approve now frequently take years. One of the strategies that SSA has employed to try to shorten wait times is to start allowing claimants…

Previous articles have discussed the merits of working with an experienced Social Security disability attorney to represent your interests as you apply for benefits because, statistically speaking, your chances of getting approved for disability benefits improve greatly with the help of an attorney, especially at the hearing stage. Here, we…