Social Security Disability Law: News and Facts

Social Security offers two main sources of benefits: disability and retirement benefits. Each has different requirements. The SSA allows you to file for retirement benefits as early as age 62, or wait and receive your full benefit amount when you reach full retirement age. Depending on what year you were born, this may vary from 65 to 67 years old. For most people, it does not make sense to file for early retirement benefits at age 62 if you are already receiving SSDI because of a disability. Your disability payments equal your full retirement amount, and those who opt for early retirement receive reduced benefits. You can not collect social security retirement and social security disability at the same time.  There is one exception that allows qualified individuals to draw both retirement and SSDI benefits at the same time, but this is rare and still does not allow them to collect more than their full retirement benefit. This occurs when someone opts for early retirement between a...

The New York Times published an article on the growing problem the Social Security Administration has with having to wait a long time to talk to a person over the phone. The Social Security Administration each year has less and less people working for them. The population is growing older and more people are retiring. Also, people who are on disability have to use the same phone numbers. The Social Security Administration should have separate phone numbers for retirement and disability. The Social Security Administration needs to hire more people.  Here is the link to the article. Read it and tell me what you think.   Have a Social Security Question? Please Hold - The New York Times (nytimes.com) If you need helping applying for Social Security Disability or SSI, please contact me at joshben99@gmail.com. I have over 20 years experience with Social Security Disability cases.