DISQUS

Colorado Social Security Disability Benefits Law: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Disability Insurance Benefits (DIB)

  • Benjamin · 10 months ago
    My mom is getting SSD benefits now, but in a month she'll be inheriting an estate from my recently passed grandmother. Will this affect her benefits or no? We're desperately looking for an answer.
  • TomaszStasiuk · 10 months ago
    Read Brenda's question in the comments of this article and the reply:

    http://www.socialsecurityinsider.com/2008/10/ss...

    Don't get scared off by the article, it only applies in SSI cases.
  • Federal Payroll Tax · 9 months ago
    What upsets me is that people can apply for disability or ssi for being alcoholics or drug addicts (my loser aunt has been collecting for alcoholism for years) but people who have legitimate ailments that prevent work such as Severe Bi-polar are denied.
  • TomaszStasiuk · 9 months ago
    That it is a common misconception.

    No one is on Social Security BECAUSE of alcoholism or drug addiction.

    Social Security has regulations, which all the judges I am familiar with zealously apply, which state that if drug abuse or alcoholism are material and contributory to a disability, benefits will be denied.

    So, are there alcoholics on Social Security? Yes.
    Are there drug addicts on Social Security? Yes.

    But, these people are NOT getting Social Security disability benefits BECAUSE of either alcoholism or drug addictions.

    Social Security has to have found that there is a SEPARATE impairment that is not affected by the alcoholism or drug addiction which makes these people disabled.

    I can't speak for your aunt, and I know everyone has a story about a neighbor or acquaintance who is getting Social Security when they "are not really disabled," but as someone in the trenches fighting along side people who have been denied, I can tell you that Social Security does not cut a break to alcoholics or drug addicts.
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