????Backpay SSDI Benefits - Disabilities Message Board

countrykid · 02-09-2007, 04:05 PM

Just wanted to see if anyone had any input on how long it took them to get their backpay and monthly benefit SSDI checks after they won at the ALJ hearing. This hopefully short wait I believe will be worse than waiting the for the hearing. So close but still feels so far away. It's taking all I've got to manage what little to nothing $$$ we have left. I'm very impatient right now...if we don't get something soon we'll lose the car. Inspection, tags and insurance are all due by the end of the month.

Mz Migraine · 02-09-2007, 04:55 PM

Hi neighbor!

If Pa is like NJ.............

If you elected direct deposit at the time you *initially* filed for SSDI, then I suggest that you start checking your bank statements and/or calling
. You will not be notified when SS deposits your $$$$$.

I received mine 2 weeks after my hearing. I had called my bank to check on something & was floored when the *automated* voice told me my balance.

My cat had to lick me off the floor.

I received the *paperwork* approximately 1 1/2 months later after the hearing.

rayefaye · 02-09-2007, 06:01 PM

Yeah, if you get direct deposit it don't take no time once you get your decision and then I receive the notice telling me how much I would get. Then a week later I done the same thing I called the bank and it was there, I couldn't believe it . I called back several times and called the bank and talked to a teller to be sure I wasn't hallucating.

ICC · 02-09-2007, 06:42 PM

hubby didn't use direct deposit and just rec'd his back pay today. he was awarded full disability on dec 30th. no other paperwork has come yet. nothing on medicare and he has no idea when he will get his monthly checks.

ICC

rayefaye · 02-09-2007, 06:52 PM

Depends on his birthday, like my birthday is the 10 so I receive my check on the second wednesday of each month. So this month I will receive mine on the 14 which I have direct deposit. If you a pamphlet with his decision it should tell you or you can go to the social security website and it will tell you but I know it's now based on you birthday so if it was say between the 1-5 day of the month he would receive it on the first wednesday.