Checking the Status of Your Disability Application
Checking the Status of Your Disability Application
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How Can I Check the Status of My Social Security Disability Claim?
Checking the status of your Social Security disability claim can help speed up your case.
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Phone Number to Check Status of a Disability Decision
Call your local DDS agency or hearing office, not the Social Security field office, to check the status of your claim.
Other Public Benefits
Other Public Benefits
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Ways to Get Short-Term Disability Benefits
Only a few states provide temporary disability benefits, though workers' comp and private employer-funded disability insurance do as well.
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Can I Get Interim Public Assistance While Waiting for SSI?
Most states offer loans when you apply for SSI if you promise to pay it back with your SSI benefits.
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Financial Assistance While Waiting on Disability
There is help available while you're waiting for Social Security or SSI disability payments, but you have to piece it together.
Questions Asked While Waiting for a Disability Decision
Questions Asked While Waiting for a Disability Decision
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Can I Collect Unemployment While Waiting for Social Security Disability?
Social Security doesn't have a rule against it, but collecting unemployment while waiting for SSDI or SSI disability benefits could come back to bite you.
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Why Is My Disability Decision Taking So Long?
Most disability cases take a long time to decide, so it's not a bad sign if your case is taking a while.
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Disability: No Health Insurance, No Medications, What To Do?
People who can't work often can't pay for medicines or doctors.
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What Is the Five-Month Waiting Period for Social Security Disability?
Applicants who are approved for Social Security disability lose the first five month of benefits.
More Questions Asked While Waiting for a Disability Decision
More Questions Asked While Waiting for a Disability Decision
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The Social Security Disability Quality Review Process
Social Security randomly pulls disability applications to make sure they're handled consistently.
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What Is the Five-Month Waiting Period for Social Security Disability?
Applicants who are approved for Social Security disability lose the first five month of benefits.
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Social Security's Compassionate Allowances List
Certain serious and easily provable conditions are eligible for expedited approval through the Compassionate Allowances program.
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Quick Disability Determination Process for Social Security Disability Cases
The Quick Disability Determination Process allows some claimants to get disability benefits much faster than the regular process.
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Filing for Presumptive Disability Benefits
Presumptive disability payments provide you with support while the SSA completes its review of your disability claim.
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Here's what you'll find out in your Social Security disability award letter.
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Notice of a Decision for a Social Security Disability Case
How you'll be notified about Social Security's decision on your disability benefits depends on in what stage in the application process you are.