When did you start getting your ssi payments?

Hey guys After you were approved for ssi social secuity when did you start getting your payment did you have social security I just got approved on December 1st I feel very blessed thank god

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i started gettin benefits eight years ago… i applied, and just like two or three months later i was gettin the money every month

10 years or so after diagnosis
Lost a lot of money not accepting I needed it not a successful career
Which I thought i was capable of beating schizophrenia

I’m on SSDI since 2008. I really don’t know when I was approved. I was in the psych ward mid-September until October 20th. A lawyer came to see me when I was in the psych ward. I was homeless and unmedicated. I got my first check December 1st, and my case manager rented the apartment I currently live in.

16 years ago.

Did you get any backpay? Like when you finally get it you get the payments from when you applied to when you got on it.

I got a year of back pay and had to pay the lawyer a third of it.

I got SSD three months after applying, in January 1997. I didn’t have to do any paperwork. My pdoc and social worker did everything.

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It took 3 months after I was awarded SS disability insurance (different from SSI) to start receiving money. But the gvt determined I was incapable of handling my own money so my husband is in charge of it. He had to create a special account to keep my money in and the gvt says I’m not allowed to be on the account. It really sucks

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i also have a representative payee, someone who manages my disability money. it’s ironic, cause i’m in better shape than most of the posters here who dont have payees, and even manage to work sixteen hours a week at a job. i guess i was in pretty bad shape when i was approved, though.

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