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How long can you receive social security disability or SSI disability benefits? This is one area where federal disability benefits are distinctly different from other types of disability benefit programs (for example, with long term disability insurance benefits, depending on the plan, you may be capped on how long you can receive benefits in general, or capped on how long you can receive benefits for a mental condition). Here's the answer to the question: once your application for social security disability (or your disability appeal, if that is the case) has been approved, you may potentially receive disability benefits up to the point at which you reach retirement age. What will happen at retirement age? You will continue to receive the same benefit amount, but simply under the classification of "retirement" instead of "disability". Prior to reaching retirement age, will my case be reviewed to see if I am still eligible to receive disability benefits? Yes, this type of review is known as a CDR. CDR stands for continuing disability review. During a CDR, the social security administration will review your claim to see if your medical condition still meets social security disability requirements. Typically, this will involve gathering some of your most recent medical records to see if anything has changed and to verify whether or not "medical improvement" has taken place. How often are social security disability and SSI disability cases reviewed? Usually, SSD and SSI cases are set to be reviewed every one, three, or seven years. However, since the social security administration has backlogs of every sort (backlogs for disability applications, backlogs for disability hearings, and backlogs for disability reviews), it is usually the norm that reviews of disability cases are not done on time. In other words, a review that is set for every three years may actually be done every fifth year. How often are people taken off disability benefits after a review has been done? In actuality, the percentage is very low. This is because it is very difficult in most cases for social security to find that "medical improvement" has taken place. In fact, in all likelihood, once a person has been awarded disability benefits, they will continue to receive disability benefits until retirement age, at which point their benefits will convert from the disability category to the retirement category. 
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