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Social Security Disability - How it works
This is just a short page to offer a few tips on the social security disability process. Basically, if you are disabled and are applying for social security disability or ssi disability benefits, you need to understand that the process is very, very long. In fact, if you are not approved for benefits when you first apply for ssd or ssi (this is called the initial phase), which can take several months, then it is likely that you will have to go through the entire social security disability appeals process. This can take years to get through. The middle step, known as the reconsideration stage, can take several months. Most individuals are denied their disability benefits at this stage, but, nevertheless, a person applying for social security disability is required to go through this stage. After the reconsideration stage, there is the disability hearing stage. And this is where the wait really begins. After you've been denied at the reconideration level, you request a disability hearing before a federal judge. It might take you a year or longer to get this hearing. And when you have the hearing, you only have about a one out of two chance of being granted your social security disability benefits. So...if you are thinking of applying for ssd or ssi, think about how long the process might take and get prepared. Because it is anything but an easy process to deal with.
Social Security Disability
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