Even if you receive Social Security benefits, you will have to file a tax return and pay taxes if you have outside income from different sources.These income sources include work wages, self employment earnings, and dividends from life insurance policies and investments.ven if you receive Social Security benefits, you will have to file a tax return and pay taxes if you have outside income from different sources.
In July of 2007 the claims backlog for SSDI and SSI cases was at its highest mark ever reaching 749,224 cases. The information below should help give you an idea of how long it takes to get a decision at the hearing level. The national average in 7/07 was 528 days. As of 5/30/08 a new report was published with an update on processing times at the hearing level. The national average for 5/08 was 523 days.
Decision wait times at the reconsideration and hearing levels. Because your claim will not necessarily start from scratch, most reconsideration appeal decisions will be received in sixty days or less. However, this is not always the case. Processing time can be less, or more, depending on the disability case itself. Obviously, if Social Security has to secure new medical evidence or schedule one or more consultative examinations, it could take longer for you to receive your reconsideration appeal decision.