We redetermine eligibility and benefit amounts of most recipients once every 1 to 6 years. When you report a change that affects eligibility or payment (for example, marriage), we may review your income, resources, and living arrangements.
Expected, we'll normally review your medical condition within six to 18 months after our decision. Possible, we'll normally review your medical condition about every three years. Not expected, we'll normally review your medical condition about every seven years.
If your disability continues, you are not substantially employed, you are not incarcerated, and you prepare for and cooperate with the SSA's continuing disability reviews, your social disability benefits should continue until you are aged 65 when they will convert to retirement benefits.
Social Security periodically reviews your medical impairment(s) to determine if you continue to have a disabling condition. If we determine that you are no longer disabled or blind, your benefits will stop. We call this review a continuing disability review (CDR).
Recipients of SSDI and SSI can have their disability benefits taken away for many reasons. The most common reasons relate to an increase in income or payment-in-kind. Individuals can also have their benefits terminated if they are suspected of fraud or convicted of a serious crime.
What Can Cause SSI Benefits to Stop? The most common reason for someone to lose SSI benefits is having too much income, either through working or receiving it in some other way.
THE SSA INVESTIGATION USUALLY STARTS WITH THE INTERNET
SSA opens their investigation by looking for you on the internet. They will look up your name, phone number, and address. They usually already have this information, but they are checking it to make sure you are living at the address that you say you are living at.
Triggered CDRs
You return to work (unless you've been receiving SSDI benefits for at least 24 months). You inform the SSA that your condition has improved. Your medical evidence indicates that your condition has improved. A third party informs the SSA that you are not following your treatment protocol, or.
About the SSA-455
The Disability Update Report is sent to beneficiaries who Social Security determined have a low probability of medical improvement when a previous full CDR was done.
Unlike private insurance companies the SSA does not generally conduct surveillance investigations, but that doesn't mean that they can't or never will. Once you file a disability claim, the SSA looks for proof of your disability.
If you fail to report changes in a timely way, or if you intentionally make a false statement, we may stop your SSI, disability, and retirement benefits. We may also impose a sanction against your payments. The first sanction is a loss of payments for six months. Subsequent sanctions are for 12 and 24 months.
Making Statements That Can Hurt Your Claim – Unless you are specifically asked pertinent questions, do not talk about alcohol or drug use, criminal history, family members getting disability or unemployment, or similar topics. However, if you are asked directly about any of those topics, answer them truthfully.
Also, some events can trigger a CDR. Examples include the completion of a vocational rehabilitation program, an SSI child's 18th birthday, when a baby turns one year old, and sometimes work-related income within the first 24 months of entitlement to SSD benefits.
The Benefit Verification letter, sometimes called a "budget letter," a "benefits letter," a "proof of income letter," or a "proof of award letter," serves as proof of your retirement, disability, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), or Medicare benefits.
We periodically review your case to determine if you continue to meet the eligibility rules to receive disability benefits. We mail the Disability Update Report, or Form SSA-455, to disabled beneficiaries to obtain updated information about their medical conditions and recent treatments.
While the DDS office reviews applications and makes recommendations to the SSA, it is the SSA which makes the final decision to accept or reject claims for disability benefits.
Red flags might be: entering earnings above $1,350 per month (the SGA amount in 2022) checking the box "my doctor told me I can work" checking the box saying your health is "better" than it was at your last review or approval, or.
(2) SSA employees authorized to listen-in to or record telephone calls are permitted to annotate personal identifying information about the calls, such as a person's name, Social Security number, address and/or telephone number.
Social Security may use your Facebook and Instagram photos to nix disability claims. Careful what you post online. The Social Security Administration may start screening your Facebook and Instagram posts to evaluate your disability claim.
You can only use money in a dedicated account for the following expenses: Medical treatment and education or job skills training. Personal needs related to the child's qualifying disability — such as therapy and rehabilitation, special equipment, and housing modifications.
You Earn Too Much Income
For SSDI, which is the benefit program for workers who have paid into the Social Security system over multiple years, one of the most basic reasons you could be denied benefits is that, when you apply, you are working above the limit where it is considered "substantial gainful activity" (SGA).
If you have not reported income and evaded taxes for a lifetime, then you have no right to Social Security benefits.
As long as you are continuing to see your doctors and receive treatments, your condition has not improved and you are not working, there is virtually nothing to worry about. These reviews are typically only conducted every three or every seven years, depending on the severity of your condition.
Medical Improvement Possible
If your case is classified as MIP, your CDRs will be scheduled every three years. For most cases, you'll stop being scheduled for CDRs after age 52, with some exceptions for cancers in remission or bone fractures.