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What is involved in processing your Social Security disability claim or SSI claim? Initially, you must complete a disability interview by phone or at your local Social Security office. Once you have completed your disability interview, Social Security forwards your disability case file to the state disability agency for processing. Depending on the state you live in, this agency will be known as either the bureau of disability determination, disability determination services, or the disability determination division. Once your case has been sent to this agency, it will be assigned to an disability examiner who will immediately begin to work on your case. The state disability agency obtains your medical and mental treatment records from the medical sources that you provided at the time of your Social Security disability claim interview. If the examiner concludes that more information is needed in order to make a decision on your social security disability claim or SSI claim, you may be scheduled for a consultative disability examination (an examination with a private physician, who is paid by Social Security). Once the state disability examiner ascertains that there is enough medical information to address all of your medical or mental impairments, a decision will be made on your case and, in time, a notice of decision will be sent to you. If the decision on your claim is an approval, then you will later receive a notice of award which will inform you of your monthly benefits, as well as the amount of back pay which you are owed. If you receive a disability denial, then your notice of decision will inform you of your appeal rights. You will be given 60 days, plus five additional days for mailing, to submit an appeal. However, you should probably submit a disability appeal immediately after learning that your case has been denied. You may also wish to consider using a disability lawyer to handle your case from that point forward since the likelihood will be strong that you will, eventually, have to appear at a disability hearing before an administative law judge. 
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