Are you saying his case has been in review since May 4th? Or is that the date he applied?

He originally applied for SSDI back in Oct 2010, he won his case and a day later- March 4th 2011 is when is went to the Quality Review board. Sorry If i wrote may, I'm so tired, stressed and depressed over here. One sec we feel he won, the very next day- in quality review!

I am sorry you are dealing with SSDI, so am I. I was changed without notice from DCF to SSDI. No reason or explaination even with a phone conference. I have found that even with an attorney, you don't always get the answers. I do not think you will have to go through the whole process again. Hopefully, the review will go just fine. I know about the stress too. Please visit the social security forum, that has a few of us on there who are really having a devil of a time with the acencies in volved such as SS, DCF, SSDI, medicade and medicare. We are all going nuts trying to figue out what they are doing. Both don, and legal mania are trying to help on that thread. take care, ginnie

When my case was under review I was asking the same questions that you are. Over and over I was told about a little known secret about the quality review board. Not only do they review approvals more often than denials, but the chances of an approval being overturned by the review board were very slim. Keep us informed and may the luck of the Irish be with you and your husband.

untilthebell, did your husband receive any moneys at all, a monthly check or medicare benefit card?

No. We found out thru calling the 800 ssa # that he was approved, but seconds later the ssa phone representative said- oh your husbands case is now in Quality Review board. We didnt receive anything. Some websites say that its 50/50 now, we could be denied! Which is horrible! SSA only seems to investigate approvals thru the quality review, not the denials from what im hearing.

Scary! Stressful and unreal!!

untilthebell, I understand what you are going through. My wife is very ill and it took nearly 4 years for her approval. She finally saw a judge last Nov. and was approved on the spot. She was also awarded 3.5 years back pay. She has received her monthly check and medicare but its been months with no luck on the retro pay. It could be that SS is stalling or perhaps slowing down the process of paying out social security insurance payments, finding every excuse in the book. I hope not and pray that your husband and yourself will find peace soon. The stress can be overwhelming.

for the latest year i could find on the ssa site, 2007 ,the quality review rate of finding error in a decision was 3%. so whoever is telling you 50-50 is unreliable.

I know this may not help but whe I won in 2008. I had a lawyer from Allsup and he has been doing this for many many years. And he told me that in all of this time if the case went to a review that NONE of his cases had been overturned. He told me they just cross the t's and dot the i's to make sure everything was done correctly. Try not to worry yourself to death. I do this myself. 1 of my many illnesses. I know when I do it it makes me feel terrible. It will all work out in the end.

Thanks again everybody. But If they started reveiwing hsi case March 4th of this month, wouldnt they have contacted us or made a decison by now? I feel the longer they research the more likely they will deny his case. Today is March 17th, I dont know. I really hope this works out.

The odd thing is I guess these -SSDI Quality Review cases are rare? It doesnt seem many responded to my post considering this is the disability forum.