Can Disabled People Get an Early Retirement Pension?

Can disabled people get an early retirementmental or a physical impairment that keeps him or
pension? To be healthy and then suffer a disabilityher from doing any kind of work in any
that keeps you from doing everything you usedemployment. This has to be certified by the Social
to can break your heart and break your spirit. ButSecurity Organization. It must also certify that the
most people to whom this unfortunate thingperson is not expected to recover and become
happens cannot afford to wallow in self-pity -employable.
there will be hospital bills to worry about, andSo can disabled people get an early retirement
then, the question: can disabled people get anpension if they can no longer function in the
early retirement pension?position they used to fill, but they are no eligible
To answer the question, "Can disabled people getfor social security disability benefits, because there
an early retirement pension?" you have to takestill are some kinds of work that they can
into account certain factors. The first is how longperform? Well, this is a question to which the
the person has worked in the organization. Thisanswer, again, differs from state to state and
can differ according to the state the personfrom organization to organization. Some
worked in and according to the company. Theorganizations, if the person fulfills the necessary
maximum limit that can be set on this is fivestipulations, declares the person eligible for early
hundred hours in the twenty four months prior toretirement pension. Some others do not.
the date of disability or one thousand five hundredOnce the person is declared eligible for the early
hours in the sixty months prior to the date of theretirement pension, he or she will be eligible to be
disability.paid the same amount that he or she would have
There are some other factors that need to bebeen paid if he or she had retired at the normal
considered while answering the question, "Canretirement age - other early retirement
disabled people get an early retirement pension?"stipulations do not apply.
One is the extent of the disability. A person canHowever, if at any point the person stops being
only get an early retirement pension if he or sheeligible for social security disability benefits, the
is completely and permanently disabled, with aperson will stop receiving the pension.