SSI Eligibility: Is It Possible for Me to Get Benefits?
To get SSI benefits, you have to show Social Security how you meet requirements for both your health needs and your household income.
Here are the health standards for SSI eligibility:
- You have physical impairments, mental health disorders, or a combination of ailments, and they are severe.
- Because of your health struggles, you can’t work at all, or very little.
- There’s no sign that your health problems and ability to work will improve for at least a year.
These are the income standards for SSI eligibility:
- Your monthly earnings from any kind of work fall under an amount set by Social Security.
- All the other assets or resources you own add up to little value.
The income limit changes over time. In 2023, you couldn’t qualify for SSI benefits if you earned more than $1,913 per month as an individual, or $2,827 as a couple.
You also couldn’t have more than $2,000 worth of other economic resources as an individual or $3,000 as a couple.
Some assets, however, such as your home, don’t count against that limit.
You don’t have to guess about whether you could get SSI. You can get answers, and clearly understand your options, in a conversation with the Alabama disability lawyer team at The Clarkson Firm.
We’re not the stuffy kind of lawyers. We’ll explain this to you in plain English. And we don’t charge you anything just to talk and figure out what to do next.
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SSI Appeals Process: How Can a Disability Lawyer Help if I’m Denied Benefits?
Meeting the requirements to get SSI benefits requires sending in medical reports and other information about your health, as well as information about your income and finances.
Social Security doesn’t make it easy to be approved for disability income. They make you really prove you need it. That’s one reason why most people who apply get denied.
But that doesn’t have to be the end of your chance to get financial help. You can ask Social Security to change its decision several times. For many people, it’s when they make this appeal that they finally win benefits.
These are the steps:
- Filing for Social Security to reconsider their denial of your SSI
- Telling your story to a disability judge
- Asking Social Security to review the judge’s decision
- Asking a federal court to review Social Security’s decision
Your disability attorney knows how to look at your application for SSI benefits, find what caused Social Security to reject you, and fix it. An experienced lawyer can even look at Social Security’s information and spot mistakes that they made.
It takes a trained eye, but remember: you don’t pay a fee for the work of your disability lawyer until you win benefits.
When you’re appealing an SSI denial, your lawyer will help you fill out more forms, send in more medical records, prepare you to testify for a judge, and take care of all the other tasks that go with that.
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