When do you get Your Back Pay From Social Security Disability?
Social Security disability back pay benefits depend upon two things: established date of onset and month of entitlement. The established date of onset is determined by Social Security when they make your disability claim decision. When you filed your disability claim with Social Security you alleged a date for which you became disabled and unable to work (actually, unable to work and earn substantial gainful activity, or SGA, which correlates to a gross monthly earnings amount--effectively an earnings cutoff amount for eligibility) due to your medical and/or mental condition. To see the current SGA amount, go here: SGA
Social Security disability examiners gather your medical and work information. Once they have all of their information (records, of course, can take quite a long time to get, depending on the sources), they make a medical determination as to when you became medically disabled. If you have not worked since your AOD, or alleged date of onset, and your medical information supports that you were disabled on that date, Social Security will set you your alleged onset date as your established date of onset (it's not uncommon, however, for a claim to be approved with an onset date that is not as favorable as the one alleged by the claimant).
Once an onset date has been set, your date of entitlement will be the sixth month following your established onset date if you receive Social Security disability (this is due to the infamous five month waiting period for which claimants are deprived of their first five months of benefits).
Social Security pays disability benefits back to the date of entitlement. And with wait times being up to two years (or longer) for a Social Security disability hearing, many disability claimants receive very large back payment amounts.
It should be said that though most claimants receive back pay, back pay of disability benefits is not involved in every disability case. For example, some claimants are approved very quickly with no retroactivity, meaning the five month waiting period has yet to be "served out".
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Social Security disability examiners gather your medical and work information. Once they have all of their information (records, of course, can take quite a long time to get, depending on the sources), they make a medical determination as to when you became medically disabled. If you have not worked since your AOD, or alleged date of onset, and your medical information supports that you were disabled on that date, Social Security will set you your alleged onset date as your established date of onset (it's not uncommon, however, for a claim to be approved with an onset date that is not as favorable as the one alleged by the claimant).
Once an onset date has been set, your date of entitlement will be the sixth month following your established onset date if you receive Social Security disability (this is due to the infamous five month waiting period for which claimants are deprived of their first five months of benefits).
Social Security pays disability benefits back to the date of entitlement. And with wait times being up to two years (or longer) for a Social Security disability hearing, many disability claimants receive very large back payment amounts.
It should be said that though most claimants receive back pay, back pay of disability benefits is not involved in every disability case. For example, some claimants are approved very quickly with no retroactivity, meaning the five month waiting period has yet to be "served out".
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Additional Posts
What Can I Get in SS Back Pay?
What is the Average Time for an SSI Appeal?
Applying for Disability-How do I start?
Award Disability for Chronic Health or Mental Problems
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