SS Reconsideration

If you have applied for social security disability or SSI, you should know that you will, on average, stand a seventy percent likelihood of having your case denied (however, that also means that you stand a 30 percent chance of being approved, so here's to hoping that you are one of the lucky ones).

What do you do if you get denied for disability benefits from SSA? Well, you don't do what a lot of people do. You don't give up. Astoundingly, two-thirds of all applicants for disability benefits, reportedly, give on their claims after they have been denied.

This is understandable, of course. Getting denied is a crushing experience. You file your paperwork with the social security office, you sit through your interview, you jump through all the hoops that the federal system requires you to jump through, and then, if your case is typical of most, you wait for months before you get an answer, only to find that your claim has been denied. Who wouldn't find that depressing, even to the extent of giving up?

However, giving up is the very last thing you should do. Why? Because a majority of the individuals who pursue their claim through the reconsideration appeal stage (where most claims get denied again) and on to the disability hearing stage will get approved by a federal judge.

I reiterate. Do not give up. File your appeals. And file them timely.

What is the first appeal? It is something known as a request for reconsideration. Reconsideration is simply another way of saying that social security will look at your case again and make another decision.

The request for reconsideration is usually handled faster than your first application for disability. And that's logical because it is filed very soon after the application has been denied.
How many reconsiderations get denied? Almost nine out of ten. However, that is to be expected (its unfortunate that claimants are forced into the position of having to accept that as a "routine outcome").

The important thing to remember is this: if you file a request for reconsideration and it gets denied, you can file a request for a disability hearing. And that's where you stand your best chance of being approved for disability.



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