Disability Benefits Ended Without Notice: What Can I Do?

Social Security disability benefits are a godsend for individuals who are disabled due to work-related injuries or unrelated medical conditions and who can no longer perform the essential duties of their job.  By providing disability payments to these individuals, social security helps them live productive and secure lives.  If you are receiving social security disability benefits for a covered disability and they suddenly end without warning or notice, what can you do?  You probably rely on these benefits to help pay for your medicines, food, and housing, and so you will want to begin receiving benefits again as soon as possible.

Re-Starting Your Social Security Disability Benefits

• The first step to take if your social security disability benefits ended without notice is to file an appeal as quickly as possible. 

If your benefits have ended, you have a limited time in which to file an appeal- usually ten days or less.  Collect your paperwork and file the appeal rapidly so that you preserve your right to an appeal hearing and so that you can begin receiving social security disability benefits again as rapidly as possible.  In addition, you may want to contact a disability lawyer during this time who can help get to the bottom of the problem.

• Once the appeals process has begun, you may also be able to attempt to file for expedited reinstatement of your social security disability benefits. 

Expedited reinstatement of your social security benefits is a process wherein you ask for your benefits to continue being paid while your case is reviewed. You can file for expedited reinstatement without having to go through the entire filing process again and without having to resubmit all of your medical information and other original paperwork to the Social Security administration.

Getting Help

Whatever the reason that your social security disability benefits stopped coming to you without warning, you have a number of options available that can help you reinstate your benefits rapidly so that you have a minimal financial disruption in your life as a result of the benefits ceasing.  By appealing the end of your benefits or filing for expedited reinstatement of benefits, you can continue in some cases to receive benefits while your case is examined.  If you are having trouble getting a straight answer from the Social Security administration, or if you feel that your benefits were stopped without due cause, you may wish to contact a disability law attorney who can help you through the process and help you get back the benefits you were granted.