Apply On-line for Social Safety Incapacity and SSI

Social Safety has 2 incapacity applications – one primarily based on work, the opposite primarily based on want.

Social Safety Incapacity Insurance coverage (SSDI) pays month-to-month advantages when you have paid into Social Safety by your job and have a disabling situation that stops you from working. Your advantages are primarily based in your earnings from work.

Supplemental Safety Earnings (SSI) offers month-to-month funds to adults and kids with disabilities or blindness who’ve restricted revenue and few assets. Notice: If you happen to’re 65 or older, you could be eligible for SSI when you meet sure revenue and useful resource limits. You don’t should have a disabling situation.

Our grownup definition of incapacity is similar for each SSDI and SSI. You should have a medical situation that:

• Is predicted to final at the least 1 12 months or lead to demise.
• Prevents you from doing “substantial gainful exercise”, SGA. For people who find themselves not blind, the month-to-month SGA quantity for 2025 is $1,620.

To study when you or somebody you already know could also be eligible for one or each incapacity applications, go to our Advantages webpage.

How will you apply for SSDI?

You need to use our on-line software to use for incapacity advantages if:

• You might be age 18 or older and have a my Social Safety account.
• You don’t obtain advantages by yourself Social Safety earnings file.

• Your earlier incapacity software was denied greater than 60 days in the past.

How will you apply for SSI?

Making use of for SSI is now simpler with our simplified on-line software, which  features a streamlined model of the preliminary SSI software. Previously, adults may apply on-line for SSDI and choose solely the “intent to file for SSI” possibility.

You need to use our on-line software to use for SSI when you:

• Are age 18-64 years and 10 months and are making use of for each SSI and SSDI.
• Have a my Social Safety account.
• Have by no means been married.
• Have by no means utilized for SSI for your self or a baby.
• Are a U.S. citizen. Notice: Some noncitizens could possibly use the net software in the event that they meet SSI eligibility necessities.

You possibly can simply create a private my Social Safety account when you don’t have one. If you happen to can’t apply on-line for SSDI or SSI, it’s essential to make an appointment to finish the applying by calling us at 1-800-772-1213, Monday by Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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