Checking the Status of Your Disability Application
Checking the Status of Your Disability Application
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How Can I Check the Status of My Social Security Disability Claim?
Checking the status of your Social Security disability claim can help speed up your case.
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Phone Number to Check Status of a Disability Decision
Call your local DDS agency or hearing office, not the Social Security field office, to check the status of your claim.
Other Public Benefits
Other Public Benefits
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Ways to Get Short-Term Disability Benefits
Only a few states provide temporary disability benefits, though workers' comp and private employer-funded disability insurance do as well.
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Can I Get Interim Public Assistance While Waiting for SSI?
Most states offer loans when you apply for SSI if you promise to pay it back with your SSI benefits.
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Financial Assistance While Waiting on Disability
There is help available while you're waiting for Social Security or SSI disability payments, but you have to piece it together.
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Getting a Disability Loan While Waiting on Social Security
Taking a loan can be an option while you're waiting for disability benefits.
Questions Asked While Waiting for a Disability Decision
Questions Asked While Waiting for a Disability Decision
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Can I Collect Unemployment While Waiting for Social Security Disability?
Social Security doesn't have a rule against it, but collecting unemployment while waiting for SSDI or SSI disability benefits could come back to bite you.
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Why Is My Disability Decision Taking So Long?
Most disability cases take a long time to decide, so it's not a bad sign if your case is taking a while.
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Can I Work While Waiting for My Disability Decision?
Am I supposed to be working when I apply for benefits? If not, how long do I have to be off work?
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Disability: No Health Insurance, No Medications, What To Do?
People who can't work often can't pay for medicines or doctors.
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What Is the Five-Month Waiting Period for Social Security Disability?
Applicants who are approved for Social Security disability lose the first five month of benefits.
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What Is Quality Review and How Long Does It Last?
Social Security randomly pulls disability applications to make sure they're handled consistently.
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Social Security's Compassionate Allowances List
Certain serious and easily provable conditions are eligible for expedited approval through the Compassionate Allowances program.
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Quick Disability Determination Process for Social Security Disability Cases
The Quick Disability Determination Process allows some claimants to get disability benefits much faster than the regular process.
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Filing for Presumptive Disability Benefits
Presumptive disability payments provide you with support while the SSA completes its review of your disability claim.
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Here's what you'll find out in your Social Security disability award letter.
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Notice of a Decision for a Social Security Disability Case
How you'll be notified about Social Security's decision on your disability benefits depends on in what stage in the application process you are.