SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY PROBLEMS?
SSI INFORMATION
Disability
A worker who has worked long enough and recently enough to be covered can
receive benefits upon becoming totally disabled, regardless of his or her age.
The eligibility formula requires a certain number of credits (based on earnings)
to have been earned overall, and a certain number within the ten years preceding
the disability, but with more lenient provisions for younger workers who become
disabled before having had a chance to compile a long earnings history.
The worker must be unable to continue in his or her previous job and unable to
adjust to other work, taking into account the worker's age, education and work
experience; furthermore, the disability must be long term lasting 12 months,
expected to last 12 months, resulting in death, or expected to result in death.
As with the retirement benefit, the amount of the disability benefit payable
depends on the worker's age and record of covered earnings.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) uses the same disability criteria as the
insured social security disability program, but SSI is not based upon insurance
coverage. Instead, there is a system of means-testing to determine if the
claimants' income and net worth fall below certain income and asset thresholds
after the claimants establish disability.
Children may qualify for disability benefits under disability standards
different than those used for adult claims.
Disability determination at the Social Security Administration has created the
largest system of administrative courts in the United States. Once a claimant
enters the Social Security disability appeals process, is not unusual for the
Social Security Administration to spend years to processing and resolving a
claim for disability benefits. The final stage of this process includes
extensive use of the federal court system.
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