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Originally Posted by kane
I think this clarifies it for me. I think the situation was she was on SSA disability then when she became age eligible she switched to regular SSA. The payments were more than $485 so clearly it wasn't SSI.
Basically here is how it broke down. She applied for "emergency" assistance that we were told would take 30-45 days to process. It took about 5 months, but she was approved. This was only about $350 per month. While she was on that she was filing for full disability. She was denied the first time and approved the second time. At this point she was about 60-61 years old. Then when she hit 65 they put her on regular social security instead of the disability.
I was confused in thinking that all social security disability was considered SSI, but after reading this post I see the difference now.
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Well from this post I in fact do conclude that your mother initially received SSA disability and SSI was never involved.
For future reference just remember that SSA disability or age eligible retirement is for those that have a minimum of 40 quarters paid into the system and SSI disability or age eligible do not have the minimum forty quarters...and only receive a fixed low amount in payment.