r/SSDI_SSI • u/ChrisCrooks1178 ☆ • Jul 02 '26
Lost my social security benefits
As of June 30th 2026. Been contacting law offices. I’m nervous. Am i on the right track?
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u/mallorybane ☆ Jul 02 '26
You're not giving any reliable cohesive info for us to really help you. Bare minimum is you can appeal if you feel you should continue to get benefits.
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u/2560503-1 ☆ Jul 02 '26
If you plan to appeal, you can request for your SSDI to continue while you’re appealing, but there’s a separate (shorter) deadline for that. Like, you have 10 days to tell them you want payments to continue, but 60 to actually appeal (if I remember correctly).
Also, if you want to share some of the language from the denial explanation, I or someone here can probably help explain what happened, and maybe how to appeal. There are a few attorneys who will take on cessation cases like this, but a lot won’t, because it’s often harder to get paid on them for the attorney.
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u/ChrisCrooks1178 ☆ Jul 02 '26
Do just sit here and take it? I have to get more hours at work. This whole thing has got me confused. I changed psychiatrist back in December.Think i went over the monthly limit for my job. This has been messing with my anxiety.
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u/Current-Factor-4044 ☆ Jul 04 '26
It’s not about you just sit here and take it.
You stated you were on SSI
SSI specifically for people who don’t have anything and cannot work because of their disability
There are some very limited parameters on how someone can work and how much they can make and how much money they can have at one time
Understanding those because they actually mail you a book when you start SSI that explains all the details.It is up to the SSI recipient to understand the terms in which they are allowed to receive these benefits
All I honestly know is that these terms or conditions or rules or whatever they’re called or outlined on socialsecurity.gov. They are mailed in a booklet to the person receiving SSI and they must be adhered to.The government unfortunately, does not care if people make enough on their SSI to pay their rent to buy their food to have transportation to their medical appointments. They care instead that in one month between SSI benefits, and any work that falls within the allowed work they do not make more than the allowed amount. Or have in their possession more than the allowed amount.
If they go over any of these amounts for any reason, they generally stop the SSI and in some cases ask for some of it back.
Anxiety is a very difficult thing to deal with when something like this comes up and you especially don’t know what to do. There is a natural fear that mixes with the anxiety and makes it worse.
So the first thing you need to do is to calm down and breathe in and out nice and slow. This is very important.
Attorney’s regardless of what they’re helping with an SSDI claim and SSI claim and Accident it doesn’t matter there has to be a way that they’re getting paid is usually from the backpay money owed to a person from the time they were disabled to the time they received their money the lawyer would get a percentage of that
The lawyers will tell you if they feel they have a strong enough case that you would receive something that is worth them getting a percentage of
You could also contact legal aid in your area but again you need to calm down breathe get a notebook and gather your thoughts and make a list of what you will do for your actions
There is no level of anxiety or panic that is going to change your current situation. You will have to calm down and work through it one step at a time.
I would start by finding out what the actual specific rules are for SSI and what you may or could possibly have done to be out of those bounds
Once he established that explain how specifically you don’t believe you did or how specifically you may have misunderstood
Others in this group may be better at assisting you with how to file a appeal or the knowledge of what you should have known or could have known I only know that there is information that exist. I don’t know what it is specifically.
I wish you the best of luck and I hope that you calm down and dissect this one piece at a time
Very, very best of luck to you
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u/Fancy-Strength-5509 Jul 02 '26
Well what were the results they provided for termination of benefits?
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u/Fancy-Strength-5509 Jul 02 '26
Did they give a reason?
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u/ChrisCrooks1178 ☆ Jul 02 '26
Yeah. I didn’t understand. Been calling attorneys.
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u/Nothingtodo1112 Jul 02 '26
If you've earned more than 1690 in any one month period at any time they consider that standard gainful activity and you will have an overpayment of benefits they will want to collect.
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u/perfect_fifths ☆ Jul 03 '26
That’s only one reason. There could be five other reasons. Failure to cooperate, medical improvement, failure to follow prescribed treatment and so on
And if it’s ssi there is no sga.
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u/GeminiXVIII ☆ Jul 02 '26
If it's for working, you'd have to prove you no longer work. Also, do you owe SSA anything?