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.

my case went to a quality review, i forget how long it took but it wasnt that long. they are backlogged even more now. just because they got it on a certain date doesnt mean they started working on it on that date. everyone wants smaller government, well this is what happens when the government gets smaller. i answered you about the % of cases that quality review overturned, its 3 % approximately.

Echoes, was that years ago? Does anybody know, the longer they take the more likely for being denied?

it was 2005