When Your Benefits Start

If your application is approved, your first Social Security benefit will be paid for the sixth full month after the date we find that your disability began.

For example, if your disability began on June 15, 2008, your first benefit would be paid for the month of December 2008, the sixth full month of disability.

Social Security benefits are paid in the month following the month for which they're due. This means that the benefit due for December would be paid to you in January 2009, and so on.

For more information about your benefits, refer to the following:

• How much you will receive
• How other payments may affect your disability benefits
• Medicare coverage if you're disabled