Social Security Disability
Overview
The social security act provides that disabled persons or persons claiming on behalf of a disabled individual may be entitled to monthly benefits on account of a physical or mental impairment which is severe or a combination of impairments which are determined to be severe.
Disability benefits are available to individuals who have established insured status on the basis of wages earned before the onset of disability. In addition, disabled persons including minor children who are able to establish disability without an earnings record and who are not earning more than approximately seven hundred dollars a month may also be eligible for benefits.