BEST Social Security Disability News 2024

Hey there, it's Brian from the Disability Digest with some of the best news that I've heard from Social Security, definitely this year in 2024. So this is gonna impact anybody who is trying to get their disability benefits approved, and definitely will impact those that are already approved for your disability benefits. So again, Brian Tarian here from the Disability Digest. We help people get, keep, and maximize their disability benefits. So if you like the work that we do, hope you do, then we encourage you to subscribe or join us as a member. There'll be more information around this video. So here's the situation. The problem that disability applicants and recipients have had is one, just atrocious wait times to get a decision. And then once you get approved, 20% are getting reviewed annually, about 144,000 people are losing their benefits on an annual basis. So that's the problem. Why is this like some of the best news that I've heard? Well, here's the deal. Social Security announced that they're going to pause doing continuing disability reviews. Yes, folks, pause it for the rest of 2024. That means there will be no more continuing disability reviews for 2024. Now, why are they doing that? Because they have a massive problem with getting disability decisions. And the problem with disability decisions is staffing is low at Social Security and the volume of cases at Social Security is like at an all-time high. So what they're doing is they're taking the resources that are being used for disability reviews, they're reallocating those to the disability process so those decisions can get down in the three to five month range. Right now, they're at 233 days on average. So what this means, again, is that decisions should be being made quicker and your disability reviews, you're off the hook for a while. Now, folks, that doesn't mean that if you're a disability recipient that you can just go on holiday and not do what you need to do to keep your benefits because they will be back, those disability reviews. So I encourage you to follow us here. What we do is we teach you how to keep your benefits, one of the things we do. And if you're going through the approval process and you definitely want to make sure that you have your case nice and tight because there's going to be a lot of them looked at very quickly, you want to make your case stand out and we can help you do that here at the Disability Digest. The best way we can help you do it is if you join us as a member, just look for a link around this video, fill out your profile, that allows us to understand where you're at in the process, what we can do to help you get your benefits or keep your benefits so we can get you from A to Z much quicker and there's no charge for your membership. So it can save you time and it can save you money. Hope you find this helpful. Stay tuned for more. Make it a great day.