DISQUS

Colorado Social Security Disability Benefits Law: Does a Felony Conviction Prevent You from Getting Disability Benefits / SSI?

  • W. Dean Stoner · 10 months ago
    I am a two way radio technician. I keep loosing my job, due to a past felony record. The companies do a back ground check, after they hire, and then-when it comes back "fail", they let me go. Since my conviction, I cannot keep a job long. Five years, I kept one, it was the longest.
    A prison record, when you work as a two way radio technician, when you do service work on the IL State Police repeater sites, and mobile radios, is not good. So-my question is, Does having a felony conviction, and a prison record, which limits you on your job, give you the eligibility for SSI?
  • TomaszStasiuk · 10 months ago
    Unfortunately, "hire-ability" is not considered by Social Security in
    determining whether an individual is eligible for disability.

    In other words, Social Security only looks at whether a person is
    physically and mentally capable of doing a job, not whether the person
    will get hired for a job.

    In every case that I have seen, a prison record is a hireability
    issue, not a disability issue.