Continuous Deferrals?

[Daisygirl]

Thanks to all who replied on my other thread. What FormerDE said makes good sense to me.

However, I have a second question on the same subject. I know of another person who has received 2 "short forms" over the past 6 years or so, and was "deferred" both times. Her last short form had a very low profile number of "75" (out of a possible 9999). Is it possible that she could never have an actual CDR, but just continue to be deferred until age 65? Or, at some point, does everyone on SSDI have to be reviewed?

Thanks in advance for your answers. This forum does a lot of good for people on disability.

Daisygirl

[FormerDE]

Thanks to all who replied on my other thread. What FormerDE said makes good sense to me.

However, I have a second question on the same subject. I know of another person who has received 2 "short forms" over the past 6 years or so, and was "deferred" both times. Her last short form had a very low profile number of "75" (out of a possible 9999). Is it possible that she could never have an actual CDR, but just continue to be deferred until age 65? Or, at some point, does everyone on SSDI have to be reviewed?

Thanks in advance for your answers. This forum does a lot of good for people on disability.

Daisygirl
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Assuming that there would be no answers back on the "short form" questionnaires that would suggest that medical improvement has occurred, I think it is possible that a person could be continued indefinitely all the way up to age 65 without a full review. The short-form review was started because of SSA's huge backlog of cases and diminishing number of employees to handle those backlogs. I don't see the backlog problem at SSA improving much for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, there will continue to be many more short-form reviews than full medical CDR reviews simply because SSA doesn't have the staff to do a lot of full medical reviews.

FormerDE

[Daisygirl]

Hello FormerDE. Thanks again for an informative reply.

This is how it was explained to me by someone who is familiar with SSDI cases:

"Some years ago, SSA paid IBM Corp. a great deal of money to design a program to profile all SSDI recipients, using all known pertinent information. Periodically, all recipients are assigned (or re-assigned) a profile number between 0 - 9999, using the lastest information available. SSA relies very heavily on these profile numbers when deciding who will, and will not, receive a full CDR in any given year. The larger the number, the more likely a CDR will occur. Given the budget constraints that SSA must constantly deal with, management feels this system is working well."

Daisygirl