Back Payments are payments the social security administration should have been paying you while you were going through your appeal. Back payments are calculated differently based on the type of claim you file.
*For Social Security Disability claims, the back payments begin at the alleged onset date. The likely onset date is when you believe your disability or combined disabilities prevented you from working.
*For Supplemental Security Income claims, the back payments will typically begin on the date you applied for Supplemental Security Income.
Claimants must remember that the Social Security Administration or the Administrative Law Judge may disagree with your alleged onset date and change it. We have had several cases where Administrative Law Judges changed the suspected onset date because the Judge did not believe there was enough objective medical evidence to support the alleged onset date, or the Judge considered the claimant could work still after the alleged onset date.