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If you receive $1,100 per month in SSDI payments, you would only receive $1,300 per month from the FERS program due to the amount you are collecting from the SSA. This would still total $2,400 per month. You would just be getting a portion of that $2,400 from FERS and a portion from SSDI. After the first 12 months of your disability you will receive 40 percent of your 3-year-average high salary minus 60 percent of whatever you receive in SSDI benefits.
In my experience handling Social Security disability cases in Colorado, it can take between 6 and 18 months to get a decision back from the Appeals Council. However, even if you âwinâ the appeal, that is not the end of your case. In the vast majority of cases, the Appeals Council does not approve benefits outright. Normally, they simply send the case back for another hearing with instructions to the ALJ on what should be done next time.