Apply Online for Disability Benefits

Social Security offers an online disability application you tin can consummate at your convenience. Apply from the condolement of your home or any location at a fourth dimension most convenient for you. You practise non need to drive to your local Social Security function or await for an appointment with a Social Security representative.

Who can utilise for adult disability benefits online?

Yous tin can use the online application to use for inability benefits if you:

  • Are age 18 or older;
  • Are not currently receiving benefits on your ain Social Security record;
  • Are unable to work considering of a medical condition that is expected to last at least 12 months or effect in death: and
  • Have not been denied disability benefits in the last 60 days. If your application was recently denied for medical reasons, the Internet Appeal is a starting point to request a review of the medical determination we fabricated.

What data practise I need to utilise for benefits?

We suggest that y'all accept the following information at hand. Information technology will make completing the application much easier.

Information Most You

  • Your engagement and place of birth and Social Security number
  • The name, Social Security number and date of nativity or age of your current spouse and any former spouse. You should also know the dates and places of marriage and dates of divorce or death (if advisable)
  • Names and dates of birth of your small children
  • Your bank or other fiscal institution's Routing Transit Number [more than info] and the account number, if yous desire the benefits electronically deposited

Data About Your Medical Status

  • Name, accost and telephone number of someone we tin can contact who knows about your medical weather condition and can aid with your awarding
  • Detailed information almost 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 are taking and who prescribed them; and
    • Names and dates of medical tests you lot take had and who sent you for them.

Information Nearly Your Work

  • The amount of money earned last year and this year
  • The name and accost of your employer(due south) for this year and last year
  • A copy of your Social Security Statement
  • The starting time and ending dates of whatsoever active U.S. armed forces service you lot had before 1968
  • A list of the jobs (upwards to v) that you lot had in the xv years earlier you lot became unable to piece of work and the dates you worked at those jobs
  • Information near any workers' bounty, black lung, and/or similar benefits you lot filed, or intend to file for. These benefits tin:
    • Be temporary or permanent in nature;
    • Include annuities and lump sum payments that yous received in the past;
    • Be paid by your employer or your employer's insurance carrier, private agencies, or Federal, State or other government or public agencies; and
    • Exist referred to every bit:
      1. Workers' Bounty;
      2. Black Lung Benefits;
      3. Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation;
      4. Civil Service (Inability) Retirement;
      5. Federal Employees' Retirement;
      6. Federal Employees' Compensation;
      7. Land or local government disability insurance benefits; or
      8. Inability benefits from the military machine (This includes war machine retirement pensions based on disability but non Veterans' Administration (VA) benefits.)

What documents do I need to provide?

We may inquire you to provide documents to evidence that you are eligible, such as:

  • Birth certificate or other proof of nascency;
  • Proof of U.Due south. citizenship or lawful alien status if y'all were non born in the United states [more than Info];
  • U.S. military discharge newspaper(s) if you had military machine service before 1968;
  • W-two forms(southward) and/or self-employment tax returns for last twelvemonth;
  • Medical evidence already in your possession [more info]. This includes medical records, doctors' reports, and recent test results; and
  • Honour letters, pay stubs, settlement agreements or other proof of any temporary or permanent workers' bounty-type benefits yous received [more info].

Important

We accept photocopies of Due west-2 forms, self-employment tax returns or medical documents, only nosotros must run across the original of almost other documents, such every bit your nascence certificate. (We will return them to you.)

Exercise not delay applying for benefits because you do non have all the documents. We volition aid y'all get them.

Mailing Your Documents

If y'all mail whatsoever documents to u.s.a., y'all must include the Social Security number so that we tin lucifer them with the right awarding. Do not write anything on the original documents. Please write the Social Security number on a separate sail of newspaper and include it in the mailing envelope along with the documents.

If you practice non desire to mail these documents, you may bring them to a Social Security office. Do not mail foreign birth records or any documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), especially those you are required to keep with yous at all times. These documents are extremely difficult, time-consuming and expensive to supercede if lost. Some cannot be replaced. Instead, bring them to a Social Security office where we will examine them and return them to you.

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

Our online inability awarding process offers several advantages. You lot tin can:

  • Commencement your inability claim immediately. There is no demand to wait for an appointment.

  • Apply from the convenience of your ain habitation or on any figurer.

  • Stop and render to your saved application before submission.

  • Avoid trips to a Social Security office.

  • Consummate the process online fifty-fifty if yous live outside the United States.

What happens after I apply?

Later we receive your online awarding, nosotros will:

  • Provide confirmation of your application- either electronically or by postal service.

  • Review the application.

  • Contact you if we need more information or documentation.

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

  • Process your application.

  • Mail our determination to you.

What other ways can I use?

Y'all can also apply:

  • Past phone - Telephone call us at i-800-772-1213 from seven a.thousand. to vii p.m. Monday through Friday. If you lot are deaf or hard of hearing, you tin can call us at TTY one-800-325-0778.

  • In person - Visit your local Social Security office. (Call starting time to make an date.)

If y'all do not live in the U.S. or 1 of its territories, you tin also contact your nearest Federal Benefits Unit that provides service to your country of residence.

Apply for Disability Return to a Saved Application Check Awarding Status

Publications

  • Employ Online for Disability Benefits
  • Inability Benefits
  • Fact Sheet – Exclusion of Sure Medical Sources' Bear witness

Related Information

  • Disability Planner
  • Information for Representatives
  • What You Demand to Know About The Online Disability Application
  • Helping Someone Apply Online
  • Information on Excluding Sure Medical Sources' Evidence

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