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Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is financed with Social Security taxes paid by workers, employers, and self-employed persons. To be eligible for a Social Security benefit, the worker must earn sufficient credits based on taxable work to be "insured" for Social Security purposes and must be found to meet the established disability criteria. Disability benefits are payable to blind or disabled workers, widow(er)s, or adults disabled since childhood, who are otherwise eligible. The amount of the monthly disability benefit is based on the Social Security earnings record of the insured worker.
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Since its inception in 1935, the U.S. government has modified the Social Security Act more than 20 times by major amendments. One of the first amendments, passed in 1939, added benefit support for the dependents (family members) of retired workers and for survivors of deceased workers. In the same year, the Social Security Board was absorbed into the cabinet-level Federal Security Agency. The government underwent a reorganization in 1946 and replaced the board with the Social Security Administration (SSA), still within the Federal Security Agency. In 1949 the government reorganized the SSA, moving the administration of Unemployment Compensation to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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The second major qualification to receive Social Security disability benefits is that you must have 'paid' enough into the Social Security system to be eligible for benefits. Currently, the number of work credits you need to qualify for disability benefits is 40, and 20 of those credits had to have been earned in the last 10 years ending with the year you become disabled. However, this is a general guideline, and younger workers may qualify with fewer work credits.
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In 1937 the government began issuing Social Security identification cards to all citizens. Each card had a unique number that the government used to keep track of a person’s earnings and the taxes collected from those earnings that went to finance Social Security benefits. Two titles of the Social Security Act specified the manner in which taxes would be deducted from workers’ earnings to finance both old-age benefits and unemployment compensation. These tax laws were later written into the code of the Internal Revenue Service. The Social Security tax became known by the name of one of these laws, the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).
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For those couples for which the Social Security spousal benefit is part of their retirement income, the long-term financial implications of early retirement are generally negative. Rose uses a number of approaches to illustrate this finding. First, a table shows the substantial reduction in monthly Social Security benefits for both the covered worker and his or her spouse when they choose early retirement.
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Fink Rosner Ershow-Levenberg represents claimants seeking Social Security Disability benefits for long-term and permanent disability. Workers who can no longer engage in substantial gainful activity due to severe, lasting, medically determinable impairments that prevent them from performing their prior occupation may be eligible for disability income benefits through Social Security and for Medicare for health insurance. Applications are filed at the local Social Security office.
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