HOW TO GET SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS WITH NO WORK HISTORY

Social Security disability (SSDI) benefits are available only to persons who have worked long enough, and recently enough, to be covered.  These benefits may be available to workers who have paid FICA taxes to the Social Security trust fund for a number of years.

But what about persons who have either never worked or who stopped working a long time ago and are not covered by SSDI?  Another program called Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is still available. And SSI requires no work history, no tax payments into the trust fund to be eligible.

The 2 requirements for SSI benefits are:

1).  Proof of a medical disability,the same as would be required for a SSDI claim, and

2)  Meeting the restricted income and financial resource guides for SSI (which would NOT be required for SSDI).