Administrative law judge asking for payroll records?

Tedin2 · 04-03-2009, 07:54 AM

My wife has MS and applied for disability benefits in September of 2006. She went before an administrative law judge on January 13, 2009!! New national hearing center, via video. It's now April 3, 2009 and the judge has requested payroll records from her former employer......what does this mean? Please tell me this process is almost over!!!

Mark in Idaho · 04-06-2009, 11:51 PM

The judge is trying to determine when your wife last had Substantial Gainful Activity. SGA is when income was over 840 (now 920) per months. She can only award back pay to five months after her income dropped below the SGA level.

Example. My last SGA over $840 was October, 2004. My back pay will start in April 2005, 5 months after October 2004.

Tedin2 · 04-09-2009, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho

The judge is trying to determine when your wife last had Substantial Gainful Activity. SGA is when income was over 840 (now 920) per months. She can only award back pay to five months after her income dropped below the SGA level.

Example. My last SGA over $840 was October, 2004. My back pay will start in April 2005, 5 months after October 2004.

she was making $40K+ per year before she was disabled in Aug/Sep 2006. Since then her only income has been long term disabilty insurance. Will this impact SSDI?

rwillilwilli · 05-07-2009, 09:55 PM

yes it almpst over and if she made of the required amount of the sga she will not qualify for back pay for those years please tell me she did not make over 9800 a year if so she will lose those years we are not allowed to make over 9800 a year waiting for ssi claims ok double check on that ok

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Originally Posted by Tedin2

My wife has MS and applied for disability benefits in September of 2006. She went before an administrative law judge on January 13, 2009!! New national hearing center, via video. It's now April 3, 2009 and the judge has requested payroll records from her former employer......what does this mean? Please tell me this process is almost over!!!

Tedin2 · 05-08-2009, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by rwillilwilli

yes it almpst over and if she made of the required amount of the sga she will not qualify for back pay for those years please tell me she did not make over 9800 a year if so she will lose those years we are not allowed to make over 9800 a year waiting for ssi claims ok double check on that ok

I would have to check on the $9800,does it make a difference if it's long and short term disability insurance? That's something she purchased and I'm not sure if it's considered traditional income?

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