If you or your representative have filed your claim for disability with the Social Security Administration and after a number of weeks or months hear nothing about your claim, the question quickly becomes: “Can you find out the status of your disability claim?”

Once you file your Social Security disability claim, you should expect not to hear anything for a while. Your disability claim is sent by the Social Security office where you filed to DDS, or disability determination services. Once your claim arrives at DDS, it is assigned to a disability examiner who then requests medical records from the medical treatment sources you provided at disability application interview.

The examiner also sends out questionnaires to both you and your third-party person contact person (these questionnaires address your ability to perform your normal daily activities), and schedules consultative medical examinations when needed. As you might imagine, it takes some time to get all the information necessary to make the disability decision.