If I Win My Disability Benefits, When Do My Benefits Start?
If you have won your disability benefits, you may have to wait some time before you actually begin to receive your disability benefits.
For instance, if your month of entitlement is in the past and you are approved for disability benefits, you will receive benefits as soon as your local office clears your disability claim.
But if your month of entitlement is at a later date in the future (which, in some cases, may happen because of something known as the five month waiting period) you will have to wait until the month you are actually entitled to begin receiving your disability benefits even though you have been approved for disability.
If you win your disability benefits at the initial disability application or reconsideration appeal level, you are likely to begin receiving benefits within thirty days. However, this time frame could be longer if your disability claim involves other issues such as workman’s compensation settlements or weekly benefits or complex computational issues.
If you win your disability benefits at the administrative disability hearing or Appeal Council Review, your claim will be sent to a Social Security Payment center for processing. And there it may take a little longer to start receiving disability benefits than those beneficiaries who are approved at the initial or reconsideration levels.
However, Social Security is working to improve processing time for all disability claims including the disability hearing level and the Appeals Council review level. In an effort to shorten the processing of administrative law judge decisions, Social Security now includes hearing decisions in the electronic process. All administrative law judge decisions issued on disability claims for which certified electronic files have been created are faxed into the electronic file. Payment center claims and benefit authorizers are able to view the hearing and Appeals Council decisions in the electronic file versus waiting for them to be mailed and received. This appears to be saving some processing time; consequently disability beneficiaries are starting to receive their disability benefits sooner.
To sum it up, Social Security has no certain time frame in which to start your disability benefits.
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For instance, if your month of entitlement is in the past and you are approved for disability benefits, you will receive benefits as soon as your local office clears your disability claim.
But if your month of entitlement is at a later date in the future (which, in some cases, may happen because of something known as the five month waiting period) you will have to wait until the month you are actually entitled to begin receiving your disability benefits even though you have been approved for disability.
If you win your disability benefits at the initial disability application or reconsideration appeal level, you are likely to begin receiving benefits within thirty days. However, this time frame could be longer if your disability claim involves other issues such as workman’s compensation settlements or weekly benefits or complex computational issues.
If you win your disability benefits at the administrative disability hearing or Appeal Council Review, your claim will be sent to a Social Security Payment center for processing. And there it may take a little longer to start receiving disability benefits than those beneficiaries who are approved at the initial or reconsideration levels.
However, Social Security is working to improve processing time for all disability claims including the disability hearing level and the Appeals Council review level. In an effort to shorten the processing of administrative law judge decisions, Social Security now includes hearing decisions in the electronic process. All administrative law judge decisions issued on disability claims for which certified electronic files have been created are faxed into the electronic file. Payment center claims and benefit authorizers are able to view the hearing and Appeals Council decisions in the electronic file versus waiting for them to be mailed and received. This appears to be saving some processing time; consequently disability beneficiaries are starting to receive their disability benefits sooner.
To sum it up, Social Security has no certain time frame in which to start your disability benefits.
Return to:
Other Posts
How to get on disability
Going broke while waiting for disability to be approved
How to Get Approved for Social Security Disability
What social security disability and SSI benefits include
Does everyone approved for disability get back pay?
If I am approved for disability, will I get a lumpsum in back pay?
If I get approved for disability will my kids get disability?
Average amount of time to get approved for disability
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