Tips on restarting Social Security disability benefits after incarceration
Social Security may be able to restart your benefits after you are released from incarceration (jail or prison). Click here for more information on whether you may be able to resume benefits vs having to start a new claim for benefits.
If you are eligible to resume your benefits, here are Social Security’s recommendations to get your Social Security disability or SSI benefits as quickly as possible:
If possible, you or the prison should contact Social Security before you are released. As soon as you know your scheduled release date, ask if the prison has a pre-release agreement …
Starting Social Security disability benefits after incarceration
After you are released from jail or prison, will Social Security let you restart your benefits or will you have to start a new application?
The answer depends on the kind of benefits you received (Social Security Disability Insurance – SSDI, or Supplemental Security Income – SSI) and how long you were incarcerated in jail or prison.
Restarting SSI after incarceration:
It is possible to restart SSI benefits if you were incarcerated for less than 12 months.
After you are incarcerated for a year or longer though, you have to start a …
Appeals Council correcting technical errors
I was a the Colorado Bar Association Social Security CLE (Continuing Legal Education) program last week. One of the Judges stated during the presentation that the Social Security Appeals Council will begin correcting “technical errors.”
During the Q&A section, I had to ask whether this meant that the Appeals Council would begin approving more cases outright or if this would result in, effectively, “post hoc” fixing of Administrative Law Judges’ decisions.
The response was that this would not likely increase the number of approvals at the Appeals Council level and, again, this was designed to fix technical errors.
This is disconcerting as some of these “technical errors” might well result in sending cases …
How many Social Security disability applications are approved
Ever wonder what the Social Security disability approval rate is? Vicki Johnson, Director of the Colorado Disability Determination Services office presented at the September 2010 Social Security CLE (continuing legal education) program and discussed the percent approved in Social Security disability cases.
Note: Disability Determination Services (DDS) is the part of Social Security that evaluates Social Security case for medical disabilities and makes the initial decision.
Ms. Johnson reports that DDS approves 38% of Social Security disability cases.
