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When someone is paid social security disability benefits and is on claim, how long do they
keep getting the checks, and does social security ever come back and say, "Oh, you're better?"
When you're awarded disability benefits, you continue to get those benefits every month
until you get to the point where you could return to work, or you reach full retirement
age. For most people, it depends on the year you were born. For most people, it's 66 or
67. However, in the meantime, social security will review cases on an ongoing basis and
when we get the award letter, once we get the decisions from the judge that we've won
the case, then within a few weeks we usually get what's called the award letter which sets
out what the monthly benefit will be, what the back payment will be ect, and it tells
us in there how frequently the case will be reviewed. So if, for example, there's a situation
where the judge says, "I think you're going to have significant improvement based on what's
happened so far, I recommend a review in 12 months," then that case will be reviewed in
approximately 12 months. If the judge doesn't specify, but it's a condition that's likely
to improve, that's going to get reviewed every three years. If it's a chronic condition that
is probably not going to get better, that'll get reviewed every five to seven years, but
everybody is subject so some sort of ongoing review, and if at the time of that review,
the medical evidence, it's not another hearing when you get a review, it is a review by social
security of medical evidence and they will send the person getting benefits a form to
fill out to talk about how you spend your time, what kind of limitations you have. So
they'll know that their case is being reviewed. Yes, when they get this form, and social security
will update the medical records, take a look, find out what's going on, and make a determination
as to whether that's a significant improvement to the point where somebody should return
to work or not. Someone who is ill has an injury and expects that they may not be able
to work, as you said, what's the best time to contact you? Before the claim, after the
claim, after they've been denied several times, when should someone call you?
We will take a case at any point after somebody's put in their application, but we get a lot
of calls from people who are just thinking about it and what we tell people who have
not applied yet, my staff is great, and they will answer their questions about the application
process and we frequently direct people to come either to one of my seminars where I'm
speaking live, - it's pretty cool, it's terrific actually - yeah, but It might not be convenient
for people cause I do work throughout the mid-atlantic area, my seminars are in white-wash
maryland and that's not convenient for a lot of people, so now I've started doing monthly
webinars and so they can go to my website, register for the webinar, and be able to get
their questions answer through that process - That's very cool, and thanks to today's
technology and your technological savvy, it's great to be able to do that.
Well Sharon, thanks for being on the program, once again, my guest today is Sharon Christie,
a social security disability attorney. Sharon is the author of the unofficial guide to social
security disability claims, Sharon tell us once again how people can find out more about
you and more importantly get a copy of your free book. Sure, just go to my website, www.SharonChristielaw.com
or to get a copy of the book, you can order it on the website or you can call my office:
410 823 8200. Alright, thanks for being with us. Thanks Ben!