Your Social Security Disability Payments Can Be Affected By Various Factors
Posted on:6/5/2009
Written By: Chris Robideaux
| Disability payments from private sources, such as private pension or insurance benefits, do not affect your Social Security disability benefits. However, workers’ compensation and other public disability benefits may reduce your Social Security benefits. |
Your Social Security Disability are not affected by payments from private sources, such as private pension or insurance benefits. However, workers’ compensation and other public disability benefits may reduce your Social Security benefits. Workers’ compensation benefits are paid to a worker due to a job-related injury or illness. They may be paid by federal or state workers’ compensation agencies, employers or by insurance companies on behalf of employers. Other public disability payments that may affect your Social Security benefits are those paid by a federal, state or local government which are for disabling medical conditions that are not job-related. Examples are civil service disability benefits, state temporary disability benefits and state or local government retirement benefits that are based on disability.
Some public benefits do not affect your Social Security disability benefits. If you receive Social Security disability benefits and one of the following types of public benefits, your Social Security benefit will not be reduced:
* Veterans Administration benefits; * State and local government benefits, if Social Security taxes were deducted from your earnings; or * Supplemental Security Income (SSI).