Is this common during a CDR for SSDI?

Nooo. Cessation starts the day you're ceased.

Besides, suppose the staff doctor decides you ought to be ceased in August, but SSA finally decides that DDS ought to process cessations starting in December. The analyst has to collect all the records in between and include them in the assessment. The new evidence could alter the decision.

Besides #2: it just doesn't matter. 90% of the time a doctor won't find you should be ceased. Of those where a doctor decides you should be ceased, 80% of those will be overturned at a hearing.

People make a big deal about how few people get allowed at the initial and Recon level. The reason is that anybody can apply for disability. Social Security gets people who apply for disability for things like fructose allergy and foot fungus all the time. That brings the allowance statistics way, way down. Allegations like large breasts and high cholesterol and PTSD for having been fired due to drinking on the job. People who think it's a temporary disability program and file for disability because their great grandma died and they're sad.

People make a big deal about how many cases get allowed by a judge.

A. By the time a case gets in front of a judge, years after they applied, progressive conditions have progressed to the point that they're disabling, whereas when they initially applied they weren't disabled yet.

B. That level is when attorneys really get involved, and an attorney won't take a fructose allergy before a judge. They get to pick and choose which cases they will represent.

It would be really great if people talked about the fact that they haven't been ceased. SSA and DDS would get a much better reputation if people understood how rarely people get ceased after they've been allowed for disability benefits.

SSA gets a really bad rap, IMO. People don't understand that the program has literally THOUSANDS of policies in place that protect the applicant and ensure that they get every possible opportunity to be treated fairly.

For example: If a person applies, then disappears, DDS must call them twice, mail them a letter, call the friend or family member they listed on the application and mail them a letter, check other benefits programs in case they have a different address/phone for the claimant, call the claimant's attorney/representative to see if they have a different address/phone and contact the post office to see whether they have a forwarding address.

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