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If your disability claim (social security disability or SSI) is being evaluated at the initial claim level (also known as the application level), you may wish to wait a couple of months before requesting the disability claim status. Once your disability claim has been sent by the social security office where you applied to the state disability agency (usually known as DDS or disability determination services), your medical records will be requested by the disability examiner who has been assigned to process your case. However, getting your records may take weeks or months. As a result, you may not hear from Social Security or the state disability agency for quite some time. However, if you have heard nothing for over ninety days, it may be a good idea to check the status of your disability claim by calling your local Social Security office or, better yet, by calling the disability examiner at the state disability agency (this number can usually be obtained from the social security office). If your claim has moved beyond the application level (in other words, you have filed a reconsideration or request for hearing), you or your attorney may wish to follow up with your local Social Security office to make sure the appeal that was submitted was actually received and processed. Note: if you filed a social security disability or SSI disability appeal and the appeal happened to be a request for a disability hearing, you may not hear anything for many months. In fact, many Social Security disability hearing offices are so backlogged with cases that it takes over twenty-four months to get an administrative law judge hearing. 
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