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What Can Increase a Disability Check?
Why Is a Friend’s Disability Check So Much Higher? My brother is disabled and is collecting Social Security disability (SSDI) at the amount of $669 a month. We live in Austin, Texas.
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Can I Work While Waiting for My Disability Decision?
I have multiple sclerosis and arthritis and a lot of back, leg, and foot pain. My job requires a lot of standing and I am in pain all day. I’m working full time because I need the income. Am I supposed to be working when I apply for benefits? If not, how long do I have to be off work?
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Can I Get Disability for Poor Eyesight?
Can I Get Disability for Having 20/800 Vision? I'm 23 years old and I've had to go through the Lions Club to get glasses since the second grade. My vision has progressively got worse over the years and the last time I asked my doctor what my eye sight was, his response was 20/800. I've heard I’m considered partially blind. Would I qualify for disability?
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How Long Does It Take to Get a Decision After a Disability Hearing?
Find out the estimated waiting period for a decision from an ALJ after a Social Security Disability hearing.
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Can SSDI or SSI Payments Be Taken for Divorce or Back Taxes?
Can Back Taxes and Child Support Be Taken Out of SSI Payments? My friend’s husband had massive stroke mid-2015 that completely incapacitated him. He requires full-time care, living at home. He started receiving about $1,100 per month SSI in early 2016. He has no other means of income, other than food assistance and Medi-Cal.
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What Are the Rules for Working After You’re Approved for SSDI or SSI?
What if I Make Less Than the Trial Work Amount for SSDI? Can I work part time while receiving SSI?
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Can I Collect SSDI and Short-Term Disability at the Same Time?
Question: My question has to do with CA SDI and SSDI benefits. If I do eventually receive an award from SSDI along with a back payment, will I be entitled to keep benefits for months in which I received payments from both programs? Or would I have to return a portion of the SSDI back payment?
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Will Continuing to Live With My Ex-Husband Affect my SSI?
Question: I have been approved for my SSI and I'm currently living in the same house as my ex-husband. We have separate rooms—we are not a couple, he doesn't take care of me at all—but he has a good job. Can the SSA use his income toward my case?
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Why Can't I Get Medicare Two Years After My Disability Onset Date?
Question: Can you please clarify “disability onset date” in regards to qualifying for Medicare? I became ill in 2007, hoped I would recover but did not, and filed for SSDI last December. Even though Social Security agrees I was disabled since 2007, they say I can’t get Medicare until the end of this year.
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Does someone on Social Security disability get free Medicare?
Question: I was approved for SSDI because of multiple sclerosis almost two years ago. I should become eligible for Medicare in early 2015. Is Medicare free for disability recipients, or will I have to pay premiums? If so, how much? Answer: You are eligible for Medicare two years after your entitlement
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When a Family Member Stops Getting Social Security, Do Others' Benefits Change?
Question: I'm on disability. I pay $100 out of my SSDI benefit to child support to my first wife for my 17 year old daughter, plus she gets a $222 benefit from Social Security. I get around $1,700 a month; my current wife gets $222 for her and $222 for our son and $222 for her daughter (my stepdaughter). Close to $2,400 for us and $322 to my ex-wife and daughter.
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When can widows get Social Security disability benefits?
Question: My husband died two years ago. He was 63. He was collecting Social Security benefits when he died, but the payments stopped right after I reported his death. Social Security told me I can’t get survivor benefits until I’m 60. I’m 55 now.
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Can I get long-term disability insurance benefits if my employer fired me and ended my policy?
My employer's insurance company approved me for short-term disability benefits and I was hoping to get long-term disability benefits when the short-term benefits ran out. But in the mean time my employer laid me off and terminated my disability insurance. Is this legal? Does this mean the insurance company can deny me LTD benefits?
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If my doctor says I can't work, doesn't that imply I have functional restrictions?
Question: I have degenerative disc disease and a herniated disc, have had spinal fusion surgery, and I still am not able to return to my job. I was hoping that the insurance company would approve me for long-term disability benefits (following the expiration of my short-term benefits).
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Will I lose disability benefits if I receive compensation benefits?
Question: Will I lose my disability benefits if I start to receive compensation benefits? Answer: You didn’t say what type of disability benefits you’re receiving, and what type of compensation benefits you might get soon, so I’ll try to address of all the possible situations you might be in.
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Can a Child of a Veteran With No Parental Rights Get VA Benefits?
Question: I'm currently on permanent disability (SSI). I am a child of a Vietnam veteran but was adopted by my aunt as baby and until recently never knew anything about my biological father. My birthright name was changed to my adoption name so I had no knowledge of father until just about two years ago, which was one year too late.