Apply Online for Disability Benefits

Social Security offers an online inability application y'all can consummate at your convenience. Utilise from the comfort of your dwelling house or whatsoever location at a fourth dimension well-nigh convenient for yous. You do not demand to drive to your local Social Security function or wait for an engagement with a Social Security representative.

Who can apply for developed disability benefits online?

You lot tin use the online application to employ for disability benefits if you:

  • Are age 18 or older;
  • Are not currently receiving benefits on your own Social Security tape;
  • Are unable to work considering of a medical condition that is expected to terminal at least 12 months or result in death: and
  • Have non been denied disability benefits in the last lx days. If your application was recently denied for medical reasons, the Internet Appeal is a starting signal to request a review of the medical conclusion we made.

What information practise I need to apply for benefits?

We suggest that yous accept the post-obit information at paw. It volition make completing the application much easier.

Information Virtually You

  • Your engagement and place of birth and Social Security number
  • The proper name, Social Security number and date of nativity or historic period of your current spouse and whatever former spouse. You should also know the dates and places of marriage and dates of divorce or expiry (if appropriate)
  • Names and dates of birth of your small children
  • Your bank or other financial institution'south Routing Transit Number [more info] and the business relationship number, if you want the benefits electronically deposited

Information Virtually Your Medical Status

  • Proper name, address and phone number of someone we can contact who knows about your medical weather and tin can aid with your application
  • Detailed information about your medical illnesses, injuries or conditions:
    • Names, addresses, phone numbers, patient ID numbers and dates of treatment for all doctors, hospitals and clinics;
    • Names of medicines you lot are taking and who prescribed them; and
    • Names and dates of medical tests you lot have had and who sent y'all for them.

Information About Your Piece of work

  • The amount of money earned terminal year and this yr
  • The proper noun and accost of your employer(s) for this year and last year
  • A copy of your Social Security Statement
  • The beginning and ending dates of whatever active U.Due south. armed services service you had before 1968
  • A list of the jobs (up to 5) that yous had in the 15 years before you became unable to work and the dates yous worked at those jobs
  • Data about any workers' compensation, black lung, and/or similar benefits y'all filed, or intend to file for. These benefits tin can:
    • Be temporary or permanent in nature;
    • Include annuities and lump sum payments that yous received in the past;
    • Be paid past your employer or your employer's insurance carrier, private agencies, or Federal, State or other regime or public agencies; and
    • Exist referred to equally:
      1. Workers' Compensation;
      2. Blackness Lung Benefits;
      3. Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation;
      4. Civil Service (Inability) Retirement;
      5. Federal Employees' Retirement;
      6. Federal Employees' Compensation;
      7. State or local government inability insurance benefits; or
      8. Disability benefits from the armed services (This includes armed services retirement pensions based on disability but non Veterans' Assistants (VA) benefits.)

What documents do I need to provide?

We may ask yous to provide documents to show that you are eligible, such as:

  • Nascence certificate or other proof of nascence;
  • Proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful conflicting status if you lot were not born in the U.s.a. [more Info];
  • U.S. military discharge paper(s) if you lot had military service earlier 1968;
  • West-2 forms(s) and/or self-employment tax returns for last year;
  • Medical evidence already in your possession [more than info]. This includes medical records, doctors' reports, and recent test results; and
  • Award letters, pay stubs, settlement agreements or other proof of any temporary or permanent workers' compensation-type benefits y'all received [more info].

Important

We accept photocopies of W-two forms, self-employment taxation returns or medical documents, but nosotros must see the original of virtually other documents, such every bit your birth certificate. (Nosotros will return them to y'all.)

Do not delay applying for benefits considering you do non have all the documents. Nosotros will aid you get them.

Mailing Your Documents

If you post whatever documents to us, you lot must include the Social Security number so that nosotros tin friction match them with the correct application. Exercise non write anything on the original documents. Please write the Social Security number on a separate canvas of paper and include information technology in the mailing envelope along with the documents.

If y'all do not desire to mail service these documents, you may bring them to a Social Security part. Do non postal service foreign birth records or any documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), peculiarly those you are required to keep with you at all times. These documents are extremely difficult, time-consuming and expensive to replace if lost. Some cannot be replaced. Instead, bring them to a Social Security part where nosotros will examine them and render them to you lot.

What are the advantages of applying using our online disability application process?

Our online disability application process offers several advantages. You tin:

  • Start your disability claim immediately. There is no need to look for an appointment.

  • Use from the convenience of your own habitation or on any calculator.

  • Terminate and return to your saved application before submission.

  • Avoid trips to a Social Security role.

  • Complete the process online fifty-fifty if y'all live outside the United States.

What happens after I utilize?

After we receive your online awarding, nosotros will:

  • Provide confirmation of your awarding- either electronically or by mail.

  • Review the application.

  • Contact you if we need more information or documentation.

  • Inform you lot if other family members may be able to receive benefits on your record, or if yous may be able to receive benefits on another person'south record, such as your spouse or your parent.

  • Process your awarding.

  • Mail our determination to you lot.

What other means tin I apply?

You tin also apply:

  • By telephone - Telephone call usa at 1-800-772-1213 from 7 a.m. to seven p.grand. Monday through Friday. If you lot are deaf or hard of hearing, you tin can call us at TTY ane-800-325-0778.

  • In person - Visit your local Social Security office. (Call first to make an appointment.)

If you exercise not alive in the U.S. or 1 of its territories, yous can as well contact your nearest Federal Benefits Unit of measurement that provides service to your state of residence.

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Publications

  • Apply Online for Inability Benefits
  • Disability Benefits
  • Fact Sheet – Exclusion of Certain Medical Sources' Show

Related Information

  • Disability Planner
  • Information for Representatives
  • What You Need to Know About The Online Disability Application
  • Helping Someone Utilise Online
  • Data on Excluding Certain Medical Sources' Evidence

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