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Home›Taxes›6 Shocking Ways You Can LOSE Your Social Security Benefits

6 Shocking Ways You Can LOSE Your Social Security Benefits

By Our Editorial Team  |  Published April 18, 2023

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#5 Lose SSDIs: Getting better

If you are receiving SSDIs, then you should be aware of the ways in which you can end up losing these benefits if you are not employed when you receive these types of payments. A lot of people who benefit from these types of payments end up relying on them a lot. However, it is known that even if you are receiving SSDI as a result of a long-term disability or chronic illness, the SSA is required to conduct reviews of your case periodically, and this can end up being tense for most people.

If the doctor who sees you expects your disability to get better with time, which means you can go back to work, then the SSDIs can have an expiration date of anywhere between 6 and 18 months. However, if it is not known if you could get better, then the SSDIs are indefinite, and the SSA will review your case around every three years. If there seems to be no chance of improvement, then the review will be conducted after seven years.

Yet, if your condition improves in the meantime or you end up going back to work, you have to inform the SSA, and this will mean that you will be losing your SSDI payments.

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10 responses to “6 Shocking Ways You Can LOSE Your Social Security Benefits”

  1. Sereda Knotts says:
    April 28, 2023 at 4:05 pm

    How do you find out how much a widows pension will be before you sign up?

    Reply
  2. Mark Weiner says:
    April 28, 2023 at 11:05 pm

    Another way to lose SS benefits (which I hope does not apply to any readers here): Move to a country that the USA does not have diplomatic relations with, such as North Korea, Iran (I think), and there are a few others.

    Reply
  3. Dominick Provenzano says:
    July 14, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    Did not know about ways we can lose Social Security. Please tell me what to look for or do.

    Reply
  4. Rebecca M Bender says:
    August 15, 2023 at 12:15 pm

    My husband and I have been married for 59 years this October. We inherited his family’s farm 30 years ago and paying taxes with very little income from it. My husband decided to sell it two years ago. I was relieved over our finances until we found out that our Social Security which would have been increased this year took a definite decrease after IRS informed Social Security about our income from the sale of the farm. With the proposed increase in SS benefits we would have been better off to have kept the farm and left it to our children. Now we are dependent on using money from the sale of the farm to live on. I know “life” isn’t fair, but it seems things never get better. just worse.

    Reply
  5. Jane Doe says:
    August 17, 2023 at 2:29 pm

    I think if anyone is caught selling or stealing other peoples medicine or on benefits getting caught doing those things should lose benefits.

    Reply
  6. Xavier Mireles says:
    August 19, 2023 at 12:47 pm

    Getting convicted of a felony.

    Reply
  7. Thomas Graham says:
    October 13, 2023 at 3:02 pm

    I have no idea that o could ever loss my SS

    Reply
  8. Lesego Lippe says:
    April 12, 2024 at 5:46 pm

    Thanks for giving me this information. As a matter of fact, I’m among those who have lost part of their Social
    Security earnings as of January 1, 2024. My monthly benefits shrunk from $1,015.70 to $579.60 without courtesy of a heads-up to expect the drastic change. I’m still waiting for the “why” to this unexpected act.

    Reply
  9. Shannon Smith says:
    May 16, 2026 at 7:42 pm

    i hope so

    Reply
  10. Margaret L. Jones says:
    July 7, 2026 at 11:14 pm

    Let me know about the new changes please.

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