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5 Things Every Women Should Know About Social Security

5 Things Every Women Should Know About Social Security

By providing benefits and financial protection to millions of people throughout their lives, Social Security has contributed to the security of today and tomorrow for more than 85 years. Women live longer on average than men. The typical woman in a traditional couple is approximately two years younger than her partner. Consequently, roughly 90% of ...

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SSDI Cases and Retroactive Payments

SSDI Cases and Retroactive Payments

Retroactive payments cover the time you were disabled but did not apply for benefits. This might be because you didn't realize you qualified or because you haven't had a chance to start the application yet.Payments Made Retroactively in SSI CasesSupplemental Security Income payments are not made retroactively (SSI). Individuals who are approved for...

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Why Can't I Get Emergency Disability Payments From Social Security?

Why Can't I Get Emergency Disability Payments From Social Security?

Only in extremely exceptional emergency situations can Social Security give hardship payments to disability applicants. If you have a clearly crippling impairment and Social Security agrees that your claim has a high possibility of being granted, the SSA may issue you presumptive disability (PD) or presumptive blindness (PB) payments (if you are bl...

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How to Apply for SSDI With Hemophilia Medically

How to Apply for SSDI With Hemophilia Medically

Hemophilia diseases are genetic illnesses that impair the body's capacity to cause blood clotting and coagulation, which are processes that halt bleeding when blood arteries are ruptured. Because haemophiliacs have a difficult difficulty stopping bleeding once it begins, they must exercise caution in circumstances where they may be cut. Those with ...

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SSDI for Systemic Vasculitis

Vasculitis is a term used to describe a collection of diseases that cause inflammation in your blood vessels. It is sometimes referred to as angiitis or arteritis. It might make your blood vessels weak, stretched, bigger, or smaller. They could fully close. Vasculitis may affect anyone at any age. Some cancers cause damage to blood arteries that tr...

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The 5 Month Waiting Period for Compassionate Allowance

The 5 Month Waiting Period for Compassionate Allowance

You may have to wait up to five months after your application is approved for Social Security disability benefits before getting compensation. However, in rare cases, a Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicant may not be able to wait that long. In some situations, an applicant may be eligible for a compassionate allowance. The SSDI wil...

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Adrenal Gland Problems and Social Security Benefits

Adrenal Gland Issues and Your Social Security Disability Benefits Case

Numerous symptoms that can have a significant impact on a person's quality of life can be caused by adrenal gland disorders. It can be impossible for people with the condition to continue working full-time because these symptoms can make even the simplest everyday tasks impossible. The situation works because of the income loss and lack of medical ...

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December Social Security to arrive in Two Days

December Social Security to arrive in Two Days 2022

Now is the ideal time to make sense of how the planning of these installments functions. Everyone should check their mailbox over the next few months for a specific letter about how their Social Security benefits will increase in 2023. Also stay tuned in for our articles about SSDI and SSI amount in 2023. It ought to be delivered to everyone i...

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Can You Receive a Disability Freeze Despite Not Receiving Disability Benefits

Can You Receive a Disability Freeze Despite Not Receiving Disability Benefits

Despite years of low or no earnings, the disability freeze may prevent your Social Security disability or retirement benefits from being reduced. Disability causes a person to always have gaps in their employment history or times when they made less money because of their illness. This can reduce your disability or retirement benefits or even rende...

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Qualifying for SSDI for Knee Replacement

Qualifying for SSDI for Knee Replacement

In the United States, around 700,000 knee replacements are performed each year, by Orthopedic surgeons, with the vast majority of them being successful. During partial or total knee replacement surgery, plastic and metal parts replace damaged tissues and bone in the knee joint. Depending on the severity of the injury, recovery time might range from...

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Which Medical Conditions Qualify for TERI?

Which Medical Conditions Qualify for TERI?

 Claimants suffering from terminal diseases have a greater likelihood of receiving Social Security Disability benefits than others. When a terminally ill person applies for SSDI or SSI disability benefits, the Social Security Administration will process the application as quickly as possible while taking the patient's mental state into account...

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Everything You Need to Know About Social Security Compassionate Allowance Programme

Everything You Need to Know About Social Security Compassionate Allowance Programme

The Compassionate Allowance List allows for accelerated clearance for certain significant and easily proven ailments. In response to complaints about long delays in getting disability decisions, the Social Security Administration (SSA) now offers a Compassionate Allowances programme for disabled employees who have filed for Social Security disabili...

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Onset Day or AOD for SSDI

Onset Day or AOD for SSDI

The "alleged start date" decides when you become eligible for disability payments and how far back you will be paid. If you were handicapped before applying for SSDI, you may get retroactive benefits for up to 12 months from the day you applied. To be eligible for a full year of backpay, you must have been handicapped for at least 17 months prior t...

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Can You Receive Disability Benefits if You Have Chronic GERD?

Can You Receive Disability Benefits if I Have Chronic GERD?

Acid peptic disease, sometimes known as APD, is a series of illnesses. Acid and peptic activity in stomach secretions cause all of these illnesses. APD occurs when stomach acid irritates the inner cells (mucosal layer). In acid peptic diseases, the oesophagus, stomach, and duodenum are the most commonly afflicted organs. What exactly causes acid pe...

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Do You Have to Be a US Citizen to Get Social Security Disability?

Acceptable Proofs of Citizenship for SSDI Benefits If You Live Abroad

To be eligible for Social Security disability insurance (SSDI), you must earn less than a certain amount per month (or be considered capable of doing substantial gainful activity), have paid FICA taxes to the Social Security Administration for a certain number of years (usually at least five to ten years), and meet certain citizenship or lawful res...

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Ways to Qualify for Disability Benefits for Breast Cancer

Ways to Qualify for Disability Benefits for Breast Cancer

When you have breast cancer, you might be judged medically qualified for SSDI or SSI disability benefits in three ways. Breast cancer will be the most common cancer in the world by 2021. In the United States, approximately 264,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women each year, with 2,400 cases reported in men. When breast cancer is diagno...

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How Much is the Social Security COLA 2022? | Updates for 2023

How Much is the Social Security COLA 2022? | Updates for 2023

More than 70 million Americans who receive Social Security payments should anticipate the highest inflation increase to their monthly checks in four decades next year. Disability claimants get a slight cost-of-living adjustment to their Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits every year....

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How to Qualify for SSDI Benefits for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

How to Qualify for Disability for ALS?

When diagnosed with ALS, you become immediately eligible for disability benefits and Medicare. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal motor neuron disease. It is distinguished by progressive nerve cell degeneration in the spinal cord and brain. It's also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the renowned baseball player who died as a result ...

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Social Security Disability Work Credits

Social Security Disability Work Credits

To be eligible for SSDI, you must pass a recent work test and a duration of employment test. People over the age of 18 who meet the medical criteria for disability and have earned the required number of work credits in the required amount of time are eligible to receive monthly Social Security Disability (SSD) payments from the Social Security Admi...

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California Short-Term Disability Benefits

California Short-Term Disability Benefits

Through payroll deductions, the state of California requires all employees to contribute to its short-term disability insurance (SDI) program. At the point when representatives become unfit to work because of incapacity, they can gather week by week profits by the program until they are either all set back to work or the advantages terminate. The E...

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