What Happens When Disability Overpays You in Pennsylvania?

When you receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, you should get the same amount each month. But if happens when you are overpaid in Pennsylvania?

Disability benefit overpayments may happen for a variety of reasons in Pennsylvania. Changes to your monthly income or even clerical issues might cause the Social Security Administration (SSA) to send you the wrong amount. If you have been overpaid, the SSA will likely send you a notice of overpayment. Quickly responding to that notice is important so you don’t run into any larger issues. After receiving a notice of overpayment, recipients should contact our attorneys. Our lawyers can determine whether you’ve been overpaid so that you know if you should pay back the difference or file an appeal.

Our attorneys are here to help disability benefit recipients in Pennsylvania navigate an overpayment. For a free case evaluation with the Pennsylvania disability lawyers at Young, Marr, Mallis & Associates, call today at (215) 515-2954.

What Happens to Cause Disability Overpayments in Pennsylvania?

Overpayment of your disability benefit might happen for various reasons in Pennsylvania. Clerical issues, oversight, and applying the wrong benefit amount to the wrong recipient might result in an overpayment. It’s important for disability benefit recipients to understand the common causes of overpayments so that they can identify one when it happens.

A few things can cause overpayment of your Social Security Disability Insurance benefit. Recipients in Pennsylvania might get a monthly benefit payment that’s too high if their disability has been removed, they earned too much in additional income in a recent month, or the Social Security Administration made a mistake.

It’s important to stay on top of your disability payments to ensure you aren’t overpaid. Monthly benefit amounts are largely based on your work history. If you earn over the substantial gainful activity limit in a month, which is $1,470 for non-blind recipients and $2,460 for blind recipients, your monthly benefit might reduce. If it doesn’t, you may have been overpaid for that month. Our Philadelphia disability lawyers can help you keep tabs on your monthly payments to make sure you aren’t overpaid. If you are, our attorneys can help you take the necessary steps to pay back the difference to the Social Security Administration.

What Will Happen if You Receive a Disability Overpayment in Pennsylvania?

If the Social Security Administration mistakenly sent you the wrong SSDI benefit for a month, it’s important to know what will happen next. The SSA generally requires a quick response from recipients to fix the issue, which our attorneys can help with.

Suppose you recently received an SSDI benefit check from the SSA that was higher than normal. In all likelihood, you will receive a notice from the SSA soon after getting a check informing you that you were overpaid. In some cases, the SSA might suggest that a percentage of future benefit checks be withheld to compensate for an overpayment.

Responding to a notice of overpayment from the SSA within 30 days, or 60 days if you plan to file an appeal, is important. If you don’t, your access to future disability benefits may be jeopardized. Our Allentown disability lawyers can help you respond to the SSA’s notice of overpayment in a timely fashion so that you are not penalized.

Do You Have to Pay Back a Disability Overpayment in Pennsylvania?

You may have to pay back the difference if you recently received a benefit check from the Social Security Administration that was too large. Our attorneys can assess your case to determine whether or not you have to send a portion of your recent payment back to the SSA.

Typically, when the SSA sends a notice of overpayment, that means a recipient got the wrong benefit check for a month. If a notice of overpayment is correct, and your recent benefit amount was too high based on your work history and additional income for that month, you will likely have to pay back the difference. You can do this by sending a refund for the correct amount to the SSA or opting to have a portion of future checks withheld to pay back the SSA.

You have to pay back the SSA for an overpayment within 30 days of receiving a notice of overpayment. If you don’t, you might face serious consequences, such as a loss of future benefits. Not paying back an overpayment can result in severe issues for recipients in Pennsylvania, so reach out to our attorneys to learn more about how to do so.

What Should You Do if You Get a Disability Overpayment in Pennsylvania?

If you receive a disability overpayment or a notice of overpayment in Pennsylvania, contact our lawyers. In the event that you did not get an overpayment, and the SSA says you did, our attorneys can help you resolve the matter.

Social Security Disability Insurance benefit recipients in Pennsylvania might not keep track of all their monthly checks, especially if they receive them by direct deposit. Because of that, recipients may be unaware of an overpayment until they receive a notice from the SSA. Our lawyers can help you review your previous payments to determine whether or not you’ve been overpaid for a recent month.

Clerical issues or other problems might result in an incorrect notice of overpayment from the SSA. If your SSDI benefit amount hasn’t changed but you received a notice of overpayment, contact our Berks County disability lawyers. Our attorneys can help you file an appeal with the SSA within 60 days of receiving a notice of overpayment. Our lawyers can also help you gather the necessary financial information to file an appeal so that you can resolve the issue successfully.

Call Our Pennsylvania Lawyers if You Got a Disability Overpayment

If you recently received a notice of overpayment from the SSA, our attorneys can help. For a free case evaluation with the Northeast Philadelphia disability lawyers at Young, Marr, Mallis & Associates, call today at (215) 515-2954.

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