Approved Child Social Security Disability Claim

Child Social Security Disability Guide

• Child SSDI Overview
• Qualifying for Child SSDI
• Child Disability Medical Exams
• Eligible Child Disabilities
• Child Disability Claim Evaluations
• Approved Child Disability Claims
• Denied Child SSDI Claims and Appeals
• Special Circumstances for Child SSI and SSDI

When your child’s claim is approved, you will get a letter from Social Security stating that the claim was approved. The date of which Social Security found your child to be disabled, and when your child’s benefits will begin.

Beginning Child Disability Payments

The award’s letter you receive notifying you that your claim has been approved will indicate when payments will start. How much your child received will depend on income factors. Your state of residence may also affect the benefit amount because some states supplement the benefit.

How are payments made?

Benefits can be made by check but Social Security prefers that payments be made by direct deposit into an account for the child.

How long do payments last?

Payments will last as long as the child is disabled until they reach age 18. At that time they may be eligible for SSI as an adult or SSDI under a parents Social Security number.

Reviewing Disability Cases for Condition and Progress Evaluations

At least every three years for children younger than age 18 whose conditions are expected to improve; and By age 1 for babies who are getting SSI payments because of their low birth weight, unless it is determined their medical condition is not expected to improve by their first birthday and the review is we scheduled for a later date. It is possible for a case to be reviewed even if the child’s disability isn’t expected to improve

What is the review process?

When Social does a review, you must present evidence that your child is and has been receiving treatment that is considered medically necessary for your child’s medical condition.

The Medical Improvement Review Standard is a three step process:

1. Social Security determines whether there has been medical improvement in the impairment(s) that was present at the time of the most recent favourable determination or decision. The most recent favourable determination or decision is known as the “comparison point decision” (CPD), If there has been medical improvement, we proceed to step two.
2. Social Security determines whether the CPD impairment(s) still meets or medically or functionally equals “the severity of the listed impairment” that it met or equalled at the time of the CPD. If the CPD impairment(s) does not still meet or equal the severity of that listed impairment, Social Security proceeds to step three.
3. Social Security determines whether the child is currently disabled, considering all current impairments.