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Under What Circumstances is EXR Used?

Expedited Reinstatement is a work incentive; the only people who may utilize it are those who previously received Social Security payments based on disability, but were terminated from benefits due to work.

Termination, for the SSA, does not just mean that the cash payments have stopped. It means that the computer record that maintains payments has been terminated. Once a person has been terminated, it takes a formal re-entitlement or re-instatement decision to reopen the computer record in order for payments to begin again. It is important to understand this because termination is more than just stopping payments. Termination is more than cessation, suspension, non-payment, or any other term SSA uses to denote merely the loss of cash payment. It means that no more benefits are payable based on that application.

Prior to January 1, 2001, once an SSDI or SSI record was terminated, the only way someone could receive payments again was to submit an entirely new application for benefits. This is often a lengthy process requiring a new medical determination of disability. With the enactment of the EXR provisions, eligible individuals who were terminated because of work have an alternative to re-application.

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