Comments on: Can you receive Social Security while in jail / prison?

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:27:00 +0000

My understanding is that SSI benefits stop 30 days after the start of incarceration: http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/10/when-do-social-security-benefits-stop-after-incarceration/

If benefits are paid after that, perhaps SSA is unaware of the incarceration.

By: Tammymoore14

Tammymoore14 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:52:00 +0000

my brother-in-laws girlfriend is in jail and has been since Dec.2011, and she is still getting ssi money on her card. she was jailed for probation vil. and she owes $40,000. in back child support. she cashed her back time payment after the courts ruled that the backtime check was to go to her children. i just don’t get how she is still getting paid by the government when the government is taking care of her while she is in jail. her boyfriend is spending all her ssi money. how is this? i get ssi and my husband works, we have raised 3 kids and the government keeps cutting my check, but someone that is in jail and owes that much child support gets $674.00 a month….. it just seems very wrong to me…..

By: Megelsh

Megelsh — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:31:00 +0000

I asked about outright social security, not disability, what A holes.

By: who let the dog out??

who let the dog out?? — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:18:00 +0000

but you are not disability son, you are able to look for a job instead of waiting for SSI. just go ahead and apply for a job man. forget that SSI shit

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:04:00 +0000

A 12k for what? SSA doesn’t pay “back benefits” for time spent incarcerated.

By: Silldee1350

Silldee1350 — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:47:00 +0000

i just do not understand the system, my husband has worked his whole life and did 2 tours in vietnam, he was hurt in an acciden not his fault, back in 2004 he applied for ss benefits and was told he needed 3 more months. my nephew, edward dalton, has not worked has been incarceted more time than i can count, he has been ripping older people off for so long and the last time he was released he had a check for $12,000. waiting on him, food stamps and an apartment, and a medical card is the right….our system is failing honest hard working people…..

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:00:00 +0000

That’s surprising.

By: Chow The Merciless

Chow The Merciless — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:45:00 +0000

my boy just got out of prison after doing 7 years and got a check for all the SSD he had missed while locked up, it was something like 35,000 US dollars… funny thing is though, he got locked up a week later…

By: Chow The Merciless

Chow The Merciless — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:45:00 +0000

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:49:00 +0000

Take a look at: http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2009/04/do-spouses-and-childrens-benefits-continue-during-incarceration/

By: Definemoment

Definemoment — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:33:00 +0000

So what happens to Social Security benefits if someone is locked up for the rest of their life. My ex-husband was sentenced to 40 years in prison and we have a son together. Can my son collect his social security benefits?

By: confused

confused — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:58:00 +0000

what about he or she is convicted of a crime in another country?

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Take a look at:
http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/09/social-security-disability-and-incarceration-restarting-benefits-vs-new-application/

and

http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/09/restarting-social-security-disability-benefits-after-incarceration/

By: Linda Tooze

Linda Tooze — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:08:00 +0000

I was released from prison on 4/03/2011. When do I get my SSI payments back?

By: confused

confused — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:27:00 +0000

i know a case where a man who was 100% disabled and went to Irak …is a veteran …was reciving him social security benefits while he was in jail. about 8 months. then he was extradited—he is inocent in his country.. what about his benefits now?

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:30:00 +0000

Even more simply if SSA views it as home monitoring: http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/10/social-security-disability-benefits-and-home-monitoring/

However, I am not making any opinion on whether that would work or not.

By: John Petrone

John Petrone — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:12:00 +0000

I am an 82-year-old felon on home confinement for the balance of my sentence. (10 months.) I think that i am eligible for social security payments based on Title 42, section 402 which states in part: “…an individual shall not be considered confined in an institution comprising a jail, prison, or other penal institution or correctional facility during any month throughout which such individual is residing outside such institution at no expense (other than the cost of monitoring) to such institutiion or the penal system or to any agency to which the penal system has transferred jurisdictiion over the individual.”

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:40:00 +0000

Good question! But… I don’t have an answer for you.

By: angela

angela — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:55:00 +0000

if a person gets disability and went to jail for and got out half way through the month do they collect the other half for that month when they get out

By: TomaszStasiuk

TomaszStasiuk — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:30:00 +0000

Take a look at the following for general information on this:

http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/09/restarting-social-security-disability-benefits-after-incarceration/
http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2010/09/social-security-disability-and-incarceration-restarting-benefits-vs-new-application/