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Social Security disability benefits and home monitoring

By on 10/11/2010 in Stopping Benefits
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Will your Social Security benefits (Social Security disability insurance – SSDI, or Supplemental Security Income – SSI) stop if you have to wear an ankle bracelet or other type of home monitor?

The answer is no. Social Security does not consider in home detention as “incarceration” which would normally stop payment of Social Security benefits to the disabled individual.

So, having a home ankle monitor will not stop your Social Security benefits.

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