How do you get on disability? How long does it take?

Question

If I applied for disability (I have an ongoing spinal and nerve condition which keeps me from working a normal job or normal daily function in life I also have circulation problems.

When someone applies for disability, what do they have to go through? Do they have to get their blood taken and stuff? How much money does a person get monthly from the disability and how soon after someone applies do they get the money?

Answer 1

Everything depends on something else. How much you get depends upon your wages earned. How long it takes depends upon many, many factors. Your best bet is to call social security and apply. If you are approved, you will get payments retroactive to the time you applied. If you are turned down the first time appeal it yourself before you hire an attorney, which should be your last resort.

Answer 2

My sister is a fraud investigator for the Social Security System: I also collect and have been on SS for many years now. Not many of these answers are correct.
In the first place, there are no list of certain things you have to meet or critea to get SSI. Each individal is based on each case seperately.

The wait is based on the area concerned. An area such as say, New York with a large population: What now 20 million may take two to three years.
Las Vegas Took Three months. That's the way it is.

When you apply for SSI your injured or Ill. You see your doctor. You cannot work. Most people can't. It's suggested they apply for SSI. Either their insurance won't pay or has run out, their Workmans comp has run out or they simply need money and need help. they apply for SSI. They don't think "Oh! It's such a nice day, I think I'll apply for SSI" there's a reason.

They have a doctor check them over, they have MRI's CAT's and X-Rays lot's of tests. The doctors and, or has consultations with other doctors and comes to the conclutions that it would be detramental to work further. The patient doing any more work or moving around is only harming her/him self, is bound in a wheel chair, is using crutches, a cane, cannot walk, etc
Is in someway handi-capped and no longer able to have a full lifestyle. There will be many tests, some you won't like but, they all have to be taken. Hospital stays. etc.

You will be offered a set amount of money. After awhile you may return to work but, this will be explained to you. You will never loose your money, never but, you can screw it up.

Good luck, don't mess it up, they sometimes watch you, be careful.


Oh, and by the way, all these doctors tests and appointments take time too, I waited about a year for these doctors and hospitals to get off thier duffs and gets things started so, it was about two and a half years before they got moving. It was thin soup for us for awhile.

Answer 3

It is a process that normally takes 2 1/2yrs, to apply, through denials, and finally to a trial. Unless you have a condition that is covered, without question(there is a list of illnesses/diseases)that are automatically covered. You will need medical data, from any doctor that has treated the condition/s, you are stating stop you from being employed.You will also be examined by a doctor/s, of the govt's choice.If blood tests are wanted, then yes, you must submit to testing. You must full cooperate when taking tests, and other procedures, required by the doctors.All of your medical info is reviewed, and decided. It is common to be denied benefits, through the first three steps. You will do best, if you have a lawyer to help you through the process. They normally get 33% of the lump sum you get, you get the remainder, and monthly payments thereafter. The amount you get depends on your age, and the amount of money you have made in the last fives years of employment. A complicated system of figuring is done, and a monthly amount is issued. You qualify for Medicare as well, payments are taken from your check, some people get it for free or at reduced amounts. Supplemental insurance is suggested, as Medicare may not always pay or pays a smaller amount, than other insurance. There is no dental coverage, with Medicare, either.

Answer 4

My husband had a stroke. His doctor told him to apply for disability. We made an appointment with Social Security. They in turn made appointments with their doctors. After seeing two doctors that they sent him to, it took 8 months from the time he first signed up to hear from Social Security that he was approved and another month before he received his first check. So the wait was 9 months. You get back pay from the time you sign up. Your check amount would depend on your work history and what you've paid into social security so every person's check is different and they will tell you how much on your first visit at the social security office.
Make sure you keep a record of all your doctor reports,visits and medications. Take your birth certificate with you on your first visit to the Social Security office.

Answer 5

good luck
I have been out of work for 5 years and not seen one dime of disability.
not one.
I apply everytime I can, and after months of waiting I get an appointment with a doctor that is more interested in rushing as many people through as he can before lunch than ever caring about what they say. I actually caught him not even looking when he asked me to try to stretch to my toes to measure the mobility of my back.
Yet here I am just 4 days away from my 9th spinal surgery in the last decade.
Meanwhile, if you stub your toe in Iraq, you get off the plane with 100%.
Forgive me, my injuries were sustained while on active duty in the military. I'm a little bitter... They ain't paying me squat either.

Answer 6

try googling Social Security; Disability; you can apply at your local Social Security Administration; I think most persons are turned down the first time or Two; it might take up to about 2 yrs. (My sis is trying to get on Disability; she was turned down & then she got a Lawyer to handle her case; my sis is bipolar. (note: I am also on disabiltiy for bipolar disorder--many years);
in my case and about 18 yrs ago--I got on it in about 3 mo's & i did not have to appeal.
If U are turned down for disabilty- I think you only have 30 or 60 days to appeal it. Lots of persons I know who receive SSI - disabiltiy - now get $620 per mo. I think persons who get Social Security Disabilty--receive More than $620.00 per mo---depending on how long you were employed----in certain quarters or years. In my case - i had not worked enough in the latter 10 yrs - so I was put on SSI. (but I had worked plenty in the Past - about 10 yrs!; best wishes!
You should be able to find: Social Security Administration in your local telephone directory; you could call them to find out exactly what You need to do to file a Claim.

Answer 7

I really and truly feel for Meestaht who wrote above...some things are just not fair...if you can't get a doctor to say that you CANNOT WORK ---not that you AREN'T , but CAN NOT, then social security won't give you anything UNTIL you get a lawyer and go to a HEARING.... have you gone to a hearing or do you just keep applying? 85% of those who take it to a hearing end up getting disability....I would think you'd be after the military too... badger them with constant calls, letters demands, whatever until you get SERVED.... I hate the way our military get treated after they come back home injured... unless you are Jessica Lynch or someone like her--you are basically screwed by the military once you are back home... one thing that would REALLY get their attention would be if you brought your case to the nearest TELEVISION NEWS STATION and had them do a story on you.....a little well placed publicity does wonders... you should ALSO write to your congressman and senators---sometimes they can get the government to budge when no one or nothing else can...I wish you ALL THE LUCK in the world---KEEP FIGHTING till you get what you NEED.... Ok to answer the question, I just got approved last month for social security disability--I have a TERMINAL ILLNESS....life expectancy MAYBE 5 years... here is what I did ... I went to my cardiologist and my pulmonologist and got everything they had in my charts---tests, results, letters to my primary care physician, hospital records (I was in the hospital twice in a month --Christmas time)... then I took all these records PERSONALLY to the local Social Security office---look in the phone book to see if there is one in your area....they are ALL over... Ok they copied all my papers (about 150 pieces of paper) and kept those and asked me questions that they plucked the answers in on their computer...you can do this ONLINE as well but you'd have to send them your medical stuff---or just give them a list of your doctors and THEY make the calls--but that slows up your decision.. Ok then about a month after my personal interview at Social Security, I got a bunch of papers in the mail with questions like ---HOW DOES MY ILLNESS HINDER MY ABILITY TO WORK ---it was 5 pages of questions of that nature---mailed that back the same day and 4 months after that I got a letter stating that I will be getting checks starting May 23, 2007. They EXPEDITED my case because I'm terminal and it STILL took 5 MONTHS to get my first check---in NON terminal cases it takes about 6 months from the time you apply until you get your first check---NOW, if you get a DENIAL letter, the first thing you do is get a lawyer who deals with disability claims---yeah , they take a chunk of your first couple of checks, but it's worth it to get the money and like I said 85% of those who first get denied get APPROVED at the hearing WITH A LAWYER!!!!!...

Answer 8

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