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If you receive $1,100 per month in SSDI payments, you would only receive $1,300 per month from the FERS program due to the amount you are collecting from the SSA. This would still total $2,400 per month. You would just be getting a portion of that $2,400 from FERS and a portion from SSDI. After the first 12 months of your disability you will receive 40 percent of your 3-year-average high salary minus 60 percent of whatever you receive in SSDI benefits.
For most disability claimants, it takes many months or even years waiting to get through the Social Security disability system, and by that time, many applicants are in debt. Usually, a claimant will receive their backpay (or the first installment of their backpay) within 60 days of being approved. But it doesn't always work out that way. Sometimes the backpay comes very quickly. In fact, numerous times I've seen backpay deposited to a bank account before an award notice is even sent.