Veterans disability lawyer, the basic primer
If that income goes over the predetermined substantial gainful activity (SGA) level, the SSA may consider it a substantial income. This level is determined by comparing your business earnings to your pre disability earnings, and the earnings of a non disabled person engaged in the same business. Q: What will happen to my claim if I die while in the process of applying for benefits? A: The SSA states that when an individual who was or could have been eligible to receive social security benefits becomes deceased, surviving family member can request a Lump Sum Death Payment. What does this mean? If you die in the while your claim for social security benefits is pending, your family may be able to get some of the benefits you would have been eligible to receive after the waiting period. To do this, surviving family members need to prove that their deceased relative did or could have qualified for social security benefits in the month that they died.