Agreement Supplemental Security Income Expedited Payments -- 2022 Edition

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EXPEDITED PAYMENTS

We tin start payments more than rapidly than usual in four dissimilar types of situations:

    small blue ballpresumptive disability (PD) or presumptive blindness (PB) payment;

    small blue ballemergency advance payment;

    small blue ballimmediate payment; and

    small blue ballexpedited reinstatement cases.

PRESUMPTIVE Disability OR BLINDNESS PAYMENTS

If your merits is for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for inability or blindness, we may make presumptive disability (PD) or presumptive blindness (PB) payments for upwardly to 6 months while you are waiting for the Disability Determination Services (DDS) to make a final determination. Our conclusion to grant PD or Atomic number 82 payments is based on the severity of your condition, the evidence available at the fourth dimension, and the high likelihood that your claim will be ultimately approved, and is not based on your financial need.

NOTE Nosotros will base the amount of these payments on your countable income. See our chapter on SSI INCOME for an caption of countable income.

You may be eligible to receive SSI benefits right away on the basis of a PD or PB determination if you lot have ane or more than of the following medical weather:

    small blue and black arrowamputation of a leg at the hip;

    small blue and black arrowallegation of total deafness; that is, no audio perception in either ear;

    small blue and black arrowallegation of total blindness; that is, no calorie-free perception in either eye;

    small blue and black arrowaccusation of bed confinement or immobility without a wheelchair, walker, or crutches, due to a longstanding condition excluding recent blow and recent surgery;

    small blue and black arrowallegation of stroke (cerebral vascular accident) more than than three months in the by and continued marked difficulty in walking or using a hand or arm;

    small blue and black arrowallegation of cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, or muscular cloudburst and marked difficulty in walking (for example the utilize of braces), speaking, or coordination of the hands or arms;

    small blue and black arrowaccusation of Downwardly syndrome;

    small blue and black arrowaccusation of intellectual disability or some other neurodevelopmental impairment (for example, autism spectrum disorder) with complete inability to independently perform bones self-care activities (such as toileting, eating, dressing, or bathing) fabricated by another person filing on behalf of a claimant who is at least 4 years of age;

    small blue and black arrowa child has not attained his or her start birthday and the nativity document or other medical evidence shows a weight below 1,200 grams (2 pounds, 10 ounces) at birth:

    small blue and black arrowa child has not attained his or her first altogether and available medical evidence shows a gestational age (GA) at birth with these corresponding nascence-weights:

    - GA: 37-40 weeks; weight at nascence: 2000 grams (4 pounds, vi ounces) or less;
    - GA: 36 weeks; weight at nativity: 1875 grams (four pounds, ii ounces) or less;
    - GA: 35 weeks; weight at birth: 1700 grams (3 pounds, 12 ounces) or less;
    - GA: 34 weeks; weight at birth: 1500 grams (3 pounds, 5 ounces) or less; or
    - GA: 33 weeks; weight at nascence: at least 1200 grams, but no more than 1325 grams (2 pounds, 15 ounces) or less;
    - GA: 32 weeks; weight at birth; at least 1,200 grams (2 pounds, x ounces), only less than 1,325 grams (2 pounds, 15 ounces);

    small blue and black arrowsymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); Form SSA-4814-F5 or SSA-4815-F6 is needed;

    small blue and black arrowa physician confirms by phone or in a signed statement that an individual has a final affliction with a life expectancy of six months or less; or a md or knowledgeable hospice official (for case, hospice coordinator, staff nurse, social worker or medical records custodian) confirms that an individual is receiving hospice services because of a last affliction;

    small blue and black arrowallegation of a spinal cord injury producing an disability to ambulate without the use of a walker or bilateral hand-held assistive devices for more than two weeks with confirmation of such status from an acceptable medical source;

    small blue and black arrowallegation of cease-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring chronic dialysis and the file contains a completed CMS-2728-U3 (Finish Stage Renal Disease Medical Evidence Report-Medicare Entitlement and/or Patient Registration); or

    small blue and black arrowaccusation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) known as Lou Gehrig's illness.

If we are not able to make a PD or Atomic number 82 determination, sometimes the DDS will make a PD or Atomic number 82 determination based on ane of the medical weather condition listed in a higher place, or on the footing of another severe status, if a final approval seems likely.

WHAT HAPPENS TO PRESUMPTIVE Inability OR BLINDNESS PAYMENTS IF We LATER DENY YOUR SSI?

We exercise non ask yous to repay these PD or PB payments, fifty-fifty if y'all are later found not to be disabled or bullheaded. However, if you received an overpayment for other reasons, (for example, excess income, SGA, or resources), we may ask yous to repay some of the PD or Lead payments.

EMERGENCY ADVANCE PAYMENT

We may exist able to make an emergency advance payment to new claimants who face a financial emergency and who are due SSI benefits that are delayed or not received. We can only pay 1 such advance payment. The maximum emergency advance payment you may receive is the smallest of:

    small blue and black arrowthe SSI Federal benefit charge per unit (plus any federally administered State supplement);

    small blue and black arrowthe total corporeality of the benefits due; or

    small blue and black arrowthe amount requested for the financial emergency.

WHO Can RECEIVE AN EMERGENCY Accelerate PAYMENT?

People who:

    small blue ballAre due SSI benefits (including PD or Atomic number 82 payments) that are delayed or non received.

    small blue ballAre facing a "financial emergency" which ways they demand money right away due to a threat to health or rubber, such as non enough money for nutrient, habiliment, shelter or medical intendance.

HOW Exercise We RECOVER AN EMERGENCY Accelerate PAYMENT?

We will decrease the emergency accelerate payment from the payments already due you and pay you the divergence. If you are not due past payments, nosotros will subtract the emergency advance payment from your current monthly benefits in upwardly to 6 monthly installments.

Firsthand PAYMENT

Nosotros may exist able to brand an firsthand payment to new claimants and those already receiving SSI whose benefits are delayed or not received and who face a financial emergency. The immediate payment cannot exist higher than $999.00.

WHO CAN RECEIVE AN Immediate PAYMENT?

People who:

    small blue ballAre initially applying for SSI benefits, or already receiving benefits.

    small blue ballAre due SSI benefits (including PD or PB payments) that are delayed or not received.

    small blue ballAre facing a "fiscal emergency"––which means they need coin correct abroad due to a threat to health or rubber, such as not enough coin for food, clothing, shelter or medical intendance.

HOW DO WE RECOVER AN Firsthand PAYMENT?

We will decrease the immediate payment from the start regular payment due to yous.

NOTE: The decision to event an immediate payment is up to us. You do non have formal appeal rights if we decide y'all are non eligible for any of these payments.

EXPEDITED REINSTATEMENT (EXR)

If your benefits terminated because of excess earned income or a combination of earned and unearned income, you tin request to have your benefits started again without having to complete a new application. We call this process "expedited reinstatement."

You lot tin request that your benefits start again if y'all:

    small blue ballAre unable to work at the SGA level due to your medical condition.

    small blue ballAre unable or get unable to perform substantial gainful activity in the month of the EXR request.

    small blue ballHave a current harm(s) that is the same as, or related to, your original disabling impairment(south).

    small blue ballRequest EXR within five years from the month your benefits stopped.

In guild to reinstate your benefits under this provision we need updated medical information for the DDS to brand their determination. A Social Secuirty representative will help you with all the necessary forms.  If nosotros approve your asking for expedited reinstatement of your SSI benefits, your provisional (temporary) benefits will begin the month after your asking. You may be eligible for Medicaid coverage.

Nosotros can give you provisional benefits for upwards to 6 months while nosotros determine whether you tin get benefits again. These benefits include Federal payments and Medicaid coverage.

If we decide that you lot cannot get benefits again, nosotros usually will not ask y'all to repay the provisional benefits.