Cooperate fully with Disability Examiner working on your case. This, you can show by promptly responding to letters and notices and going to medical exams that DDS have scheduled for you. By being more cooperative with DDS, you could gain a chance for your case to be qualified with examiner pleading your case.

Ensure a good relationship with other people working on your case, especially authorities at Social Security and others you have enlisted or hired to assist you. Simply by establishing a friendly and courteous relationship with them, would entail them to do more for you.

Always keep tabs on your claim status, either personally or through your counsel. It is never good to let important deadlines lapse on your disability claim. Act out immediately what is to be done if your claim is denied or have been pending for too long. Simply by knowing that you are aware of every step and every proceeding would give you an edge. Strategize on how to properly plead either a request for reconsideration or a appeal for a hearing.

As long as you are patient enough and is willing to invest time and effort, on no time soon, you will be able to prove that your SSI case stands a good chance and that you are an entitled and worthy beneficiary! Good luck!

And of course another long wait for a hearing and even after a hearing has been held, it may take yet another innumerable weeks or even moths before a decision is made by a judge. And if ever disability benefits are ever received at all, it had taken them 2 ½ years from day their claiming process began. As 21/2 years had passed they may never realized that during all that time all their savings are exhausted, bills and loans are still waiting to be paid, valuables are lost in order to pay for other debts. They have been reduced to drastic living conditions and still, they still haven’t taken hold of their benefits.

Learning a lesson from situations, it is extremely important to know how long application and appeal process of SSD system would really take before eventuality of being awarded by benefits.

By having advanced knowledge of how long a social security SSI/disability application might take, claimants could plan their assets and finances and avoid instantaneous financial downfall.

Also, practical rules may apply in planning financial aspects while still in process of applying and/or appealing for your disability claims. On top of everything else, it would be wise not to take on additional debts or obligations. Get cooperation of your family and list down other ways which would greatly minimize financial burdens and obligations. With regards to bills and payments that have earlier compromised you, find out a way of restructuring them so that your budget would not suffer greatly as each day passed, still without approval of your benefits. Who knows, sacrificing but a little more is what it probably takes.