Filing for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits may take some time for it to be decided by the Social Security Administration. Usually, it would take them at least three to five months for them to review and evaluate your disability claim. However, the SSA can make reduce that length of time if you are able to provide enough information. If your provided information is somewhat incomplete, your local SSA office will help you get it for you.
Personal information such as your Social Security number and your certificate of birth is very much needed. In terms of your disability, important documentation and information is also greatly needed. The contact information of your doctor or physician, hospital, and clinic; your current medical records, your test results, your employment information and latest tax statement are one of the many things that you should submit.
Also, you'll also be tasked to fill out SSA forms about your medical condition and your ability to work. After these filled-out forms are submitted to your local SSA office, they will review and evaluate your claim. The main points that they will look upon is the length of time you've worked and the work activities that you do. Once they checked that you are eligible, the claim will be then sent to your home state's DDS office.
The Disability Determination Services will handle your claim through the intercession of the office's in-house doctors and disability experts. They will use the contact information of your doctor and other entities concerned about your condition to contact them about your disability.
Using the provided medical information you've provided, they will ask your doctor about your medical condition and the time it started. They will also ask how your ailment makes you unable to do any of the substantial gainful activity, as well as the laboratory and test results and the treatment you've received from your doctor.
From the question and answer part between the DDS people and your doctor, the former will decide if you are disabled to become eligible for SSDI benefits; not the latter. The people from the DDS office may ask you to provide more medical information. To make sure, the in-house doctors of the DDS office would conduct a special examination on you. You won't be paying for it for the SSA would pay for it and other related costs.
After about three to five months or less, the SSA will send you a notice regarding your claim through mail. It will either contain an "approve" or "reject" answer, along with the reasons why it is so.
If your claim is approved, you must wait for five full months from the start of your disability before you can receive payments. For instance, if the SSA determined your disability started January 10, you must wait until June. Yet the benefits will be paid to you a month after the five full months. So for this, you will be receiving payments the next month, July.
If you claim is denied, you must immediately file for an appeal, which starts with the reconsideration stage. In order for your claim to be reconsidered, you can always seek representation from a social security lawyer in your area or an SSDI expert.
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