How the system works now
Social Security disability has a 5 full month waiting period. Your
disability payments do not begin until 6 months after the “onset date”
(the date the disability prevented you from working at a full time
job). There is little or no overlap of Unemployment Benefits and Social
Security Disability payments if your Social Security claim is approved
promptly after you apply. If your disability claim is approved, you can
not keep collecting unemployment benefits. You can no longer tell the
state unemployment department that you are able to work and are looking
for full time work if Social Security has agreed with your claim that
you can’t work full time.
But if the Claimant is caught in the uncertainty of a disability application that is denied by Social Security, and then denied again on reconsideration
by the state Disability Determination Service, unemployment insurance
may be the only source of income for many months. I believe that
collecting unemployment benefits is justified if the Claimant is still
trying to work, because Social Security itself is telling the Claimant:
“You are not disabled. You are able to work.”
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