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I don’t understand the 5 month waiting period for disability cases?

April 26, 2017cases disability don’t month period understand waiting

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I don’t understand the 5 month waiting period for disability cases?

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All Social Security disability cases are subject to a 5 month waiting period. That means that for whatever number of months a claimant is owed back pay, SSA will deduct five months of pay and consider them “appropriated by the federal government.” This is really a manner by which SSA saves money.