Remastered SSDI Q&A: Does Retirement Pay Affect Social Security Disability Benefits?

0:23 I am retired and I draw a pension, I also draw service connected disability benefits. I can't work, so I should be able to file for SSDI. How will my retirement pay affect the decision to grant me SSDI or the pay afterwards I'm granted disability A couple of things mentioned in this in here, and make sure I get my bearings right. First of all, if you're talking about disability insurance benefits, you're paid into it for more than thirty years, so I'm thinking SSDI or DIB is what you're talking about. If you're getting service connected disability benefits from the VA, you should be fine there. That tends to have no offset. However, disability insurance benefits me be reduced by government pension or other disability programs from federal, state,

1:07 or local. So if your retirement pay is from a government pension, then you need to contact Social Security because those are things that may have an impact on which we call it some reduction any benefits. Now, you can always apply for Social Security disability, but what I would tell you is to apply for SSDI and tell them that you're drawing a retirement pension, because you're saying retirement pay, But you didn't say if it was from the private sector or from the government, Because if it's from the government, that's going to have an impact on your disability insurance benefits because that's outlined in the status in the regulations. Okay, but in your service connected disability benefits shouldn't have an

1:46 impact at all, and your disability insurance