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There is no set length of time for you to receive a Social Security disability award letter. If your disability claim was allowed at the initial or reconsideration level of the disability process, you will receive a disability allowance letter soon after the state disability agency has rendered its decision (this is where the decision on your social security disability or SSI case is made by a disability examiner, as opposed to a disability judge at a social security disability hearing). However, if you approved for disability benefits following an administrative law judge hearing, it may take a longer period of time to receive your award letter. This may be the case even if the judge indicates to you at the hearing that your claim will be approved. Why is this? Because although disability judges makes decisions on claims at each disability hearing, administrative law judge decisions still have to be written up and sent to payment centers across the United States for processing. The indivduals who write the disability decision letters for judges are called, appropriately enough, decision writers. Decision writers compose the notice of decision that is sent out from the hearing office (in the judge's name, of course). There are only three types of decisional notices that may be received following a disability hearing. One is a notice of denial, and the other two are fully favorable and partially favorable approvals. If a disability claimant is approved and receives a fully favorable or partially favorable decision from a judge following a hearing, then they will also receive, sometime later, a social security disability or SSI disability award letter. And this letter will be titled "notice of award". 
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