New Rule Modernizes How We Award Disability Benefits
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The Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs protect some of the most vulnerable people in our society. A successful disability program must evolve and support making the right decision as early in the process as possible. To help us do that, we must modernize the rules and standards we use to evaluate how we determine disability benefits. We are moving forward with a rule change that has been in the works for a number of years and serves to update a more than 40-year-old policy that made the inability to communicate in English a factor in awarding disability benefits. The new rule is effective April 27, 2020.
We are required to consider education to determine if your medical condition prevents work. In 2015, our Inspector General recommended that we evaluate the appropriateness of this policy. Research now shows the inability to communicate in English is no longer a good measure of a person’s education level or the ability to engage in work. The new rule also supports the Administration’s longstanding focus of recognizing that individuals with disabilities can remain in the workforce.
To make the right disability decisions, Social Security disability rules must continue to reflect current medicine and evolution of work. We need to update our rules to keep up with society’s changes.
We owe it to the American public to ensure that our disability programs continue to reflect the realities of the modern workplace. Please share this information with your family and friends.
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Andrew Saul, Commissioner, Social Security Administration
Commissioner of Social Security Administration (June 17, 2019 - July 9, 2021)
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jason t.
i have filed for ssd have not been approved yet i am married we file taxes together my wife works full time will i get a stimulus check?
Vonda V.
Hi Jason, thank you for your question. Please visit the IRS Economic Impact Payments Information Center to answer your questions about eligibility, payment amounts, what to expect, when to expect it and more. Hope this helps!
Art C.
WHERE IS MY STIMULUS CHECK? I receive SSDI on my direct express card, everyone i know has already got theirs and i have not! WHY I HAVEN’T GOT MINE? CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN?
Penny A.
The administration needs to automatically award disability to those of us with incurable lifelong conditions or diseases!!! Like me, but oh no I can’t get disability, but someone with mental…oh I’m bipolar…poor me…
Sure can!!!
S.Y
I have a head injury and have been unalienable to work for 18months and counting, was self-employed. and i am drowning in medical-bills. I am wondering why I can’t I get Social Security Disability Benefits, from my ex-husband when we both payed our tax’s for 12 years?! But i can get his Social Security when i am 65? What doesn’t make scene!
Vonda V.
Hi there. If you are divorced and currently unmarried, you may be able to receive benefits on your ex-spouse’s record if your marriage lasted 10 years or longer and you’re age 62 or older. See our Retirement Planner: If You’re Divorced for other eligibility requirements and more detailed information.
Patricia G.
I have documents medical, even from 1994/6 several up to date seeing psychiatrist, ssa gave me presumtive benefits agreed with severity but expects my condition to get better. Many months later I’m worse than before, and ssa office worker gave me too may too return paperwork, no specific day, yet they made a decision before. Very week I turned my paperwork and medical records in to be exact, I got letter of denial, they had not received nor had any Chance to review Any OF IT!! I WOULD CHECK MYSELF I TO A CLINIC FIR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, ETC. BUT OUR HOSPITAL HAD NURSES SENT HOME WITH CORONA VIRUS.. AND IT’S GETTING WORSE. I’M LIVING WORK MY SISTER AND WELL IM FINDING HARD TO BELIEVE IT’S GOING TO GET ANY BETTER FOR ME.. I’VE FOUGHT MY WHOLE WORK GAD, BPD, MDD , NEUROPATHY, BLOOD PRESSURE CONSISTENTLY HIGH, LIKE 165/120 SOMETHING HIGHER EVEN, ON TWO MEDICATIONS, HYPOGLYCEMIC, ETC.. IM TIRED OF FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WORK IS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE QUESTION. SSA WHAT HAPPENED TO MY EXTENSION WHAT HAPPENED TO IF IM NOT BETTER AND GOOD THE H… IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU GUY’S TO DECIDE ON AN EXPECTATION . I EXPECT MOST PEOPLE EXPECT SEVERAL THINGS IN THEIR LIFE, I PERSONALLY EXPECTED TO BE BETTER ESPECIALLY SINCE I STARTED TAKING MEDICINE AND SEEKING MEDICAL ATTENTION IN MY EARLY 20’S. YET IM GOING ON 54 AND WELL NOT ONLY NOT BETTER, WORSE, BUT IN JULY 2019, AUGUST 2019 BACK TO BACK SHOULDER SURGERIES. SSA SAYS THEY HAVE …. WHATEVER NEVERMIND. SSA COULD CARE LESS EVEN DURING THIS COVID-19 CAN’T GO TO THEIR OFFICES, WAIT ALL DAY ON HOLD, BUT I DO… FOR WHAT, TO BE LIED TO
James B.
As of yet I have not received a stimulus check. I would like to find out why I haven’t yet and maybe at least a date and time of when I can receive it. Or way I may not be able to receive a stimulus check. That will lessen the stress for me. Or what I have to do to receive the stimulus check
Beatrice D.
Hi,
I’m on Social Security Disability I have not received my $1,200 stimulus payment.When will I receive my stimulus check in my bank account?I was told on IRS site I didn’t have to do anything to receive my stimulus check that I would automatically receive it.Every week the date changes.Can I get a dated exactly when I will receive it please.
Thank’s!
George H.
Yes, my. Name is George H Glenn jr I am on disability and I have not received my stimulus check yet. It tells me they are still working on it and my info not match up with there info please can someone tell me what is going on thank-you
Virginia W.
My parents claimed me on there taxes a lot of years I’m 46 years old and a widow and live on my own low income apartments on SsdDisability for 18 years I have been heard nothing about getting help from any thing please let me know what to do
Jean C.
Where is my stimulus check?
Mark B.
I’m on ssdi, and on the right to work program. Now I have received my $1200 covid check, but I also applied for a Pua and received my 1st check for $2,151.00, is this going to affect my monthly ssdi check?
Vonda V.
Hi Mark, thanks for using our blog. The economic impact payment will not effect your Social Security disability benefits. We also will not consider economic impact payments as income for SSI recipients, and the payments are excluded from resources for 12 months. We hope this helps.
Neal
Hi my Neal , and I have not received my stimulus check either for 1,200.00 my wife and i are really struggling . She also has’nt received her payment . Can anyone tell us when we will get it . The IRS web page says it was scheduled to be mailed on May 1 st and then we got a letter from the IRS yesterday on May 18th , wich we thought was are check !! we got all excited for nonthing !! when will we get the actual check plea
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