What are the Steps to File a Disability Claim?
The first step to filing a disability claim is to contact the Social Security Administration to schedule a disability interview, which can be conducted by phone or in person. Recently a third
method has been added for those individuals who have internet access.
If you have internet access, you may go to the Social Security website (www.ssa.gov) and file your Social Security disability claim online by clicking on Applying for Disability Benefits. However, even if you are doing some of your disability claim online you will need to have an interview with a Social Security Claims representative.
If you wish to file for SSI in addition to Social Security or file for SSI disability only, currently there is no online process for SSI applications. The online process has benefits to those who are doing their disability claims in person or via telephone as well. Individuals may still go online and complete the medical information forms even if they are doing their interview by phone or in person.
Your online medical forms will be available at the time of your disability interview; this will shorten your interview time as well as provide more accurate disability medical information for state disability examiners.
Once you have submitted your medical information and completed your Social Security disability application, you will have, for all intents and purposes, filed your disability claim. But filing your Social Security disability claim is just the beginning of the Social Security disability process. Once your disability claim has been sent to the state agency responsible for processing Social Security medical determinations, you will be expected to continue that process by cooperating fully with the disability examiner who has your claim.
This could mean you will be asked to provide additional information about yourself or even attend consultative examinations (examinations with independent physicians that are paid for by Social Security) scheduled by your disability examiner. You should remember that a disability examiner could deny your claim on the basis that you failed to attend a consultative examination or that you failed to cooperate with the disability examiner’s request for information.
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method has been added for those individuals who have internet access.
If you have internet access, you may go to the Social Security website (www.ssa.gov) and file your Social Security disability claim online by clicking on Applying for Disability Benefits. However, even if you are doing some of your disability claim online you will need to have an interview with a Social Security Claims representative.
If you wish to file for SSI in addition to Social Security or file for SSI disability only, currently there is no online process for SSI applications. The online process has benefits to those who are doing their disability claims in person or via telephone as well. Individuals may still go online and complete the medical information forms even if they are doing their interview by phone or in person.
Your online medical forms will be available at the time of your disability interview; this will shorten your interview time as well as provide more accurate disability medical information for state disability examiners.
Once you have submitted your medical information and completed your Social Security disability application, you will have, for all intents and purposes, filed your disability claim. But filing your Social Security disability claim is just the beginning of the Social Security disability process. Once your disability claim has been sent to the state agency responsible for processing Social Security medical determinations, you will be expected to continue that process by cooperating fully with the disability examiner who has your claim.
This could mean you will be asked to provide additional information about yourself or even attend consultative examinations (examinations with independent physicians that are paid for by Social Security) scheduled by your disability examiner. You should remember that a disability examiner could deny your claim on the basis that you failed to attend a consultative examination or that you failed to cooperate with the disability examiner’s request for information.
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