Adding hardware such as a disc drive (e.g. CD-ROM or DVD), modem, mouse, network card, printer, sound card, or speakers are not required, but give the computer additional functionality. 1  How to install computer hardware.
Retroactive Payments. The SSDI retroactive payments are payments made to disability applicants for the time passed between the onset of the disability to the date that the application was passed. Retroactive payments are paid for 12 months prior to the date of the application being passed.
Women accounted for 56 percent of adult Social Security beneficiaries in 2005. The average age of disabled-worker beneficiaries was 51.8 in 2005. Eighty-three percent of SSI recipients received payments because of disability or blindness in 2005. The maximum earnings subject to Social Security taxes is $94,200.