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My names Peter Biberstein and I'm an attorney with Price Benowitz. I practice in personal
injury, medical malpractice, and Social Security Disability law in the District of Columbia
and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
SSDI stands for Social Security Disability Insurance. This is a type of insurance benefit
thats available to people who were injured, based upon how long that they have worked.
This provides payments if you've suffered a disabling injury that causes you to be out
of work for 12 months or longer.
The threshold requirement is earned work credits. This looks at how many years you have been
paying into the Social Security system through the withholdings on your paycheck.
Depending on how old you are, you will need to have more or less credits to be eligible for disability insurance.
In order to determine if you are eligible to receive SSDI benefits, you will need to
have worked the requisite number of credits, and then also, you would need
to have what is known as a medically determinable impairment that prevents you from engaging
in any substantial gainful activity.
These are legal terms of art that are used by the Social Security Administration but
the basic takeaway is that if you have been injured and it prevents you from working for
a period of 12 months or longer you might be eligible for SSDI.
Contact an attorney and they will help you with your claim.