
Understanding Why People Get Denied of Disability Benefits
Between 2001 and 2010, only 28% of disability benefit claims were approved on their first try. The other 72% were either reconsidered, appealed, pending, or denied. Yet, the number of denials was much higher than those reconsidered and those who appealed. Between 2008 and 2019, 110,000 people died waiting for their appeals to be approved. People had to wait years