Can your Social Security benefits be Cancelled?

If you are already entitled to benefits, you may voluntarily suspend retirement benefit payments up to age 70. Your benefits will be suspended beginning the month after you make the request. We pay Social Security benefits the month after they are due.

Can Social Security just stop your benefits?

Under some circumstances, we may stop your benefits before we make a determination. Generally, we do this when the information we have clearly shows you are not now disabled but we cannot determine when your disability ended.

What stops Social Security benefits?

Can Social Security be taken back?

If you no longer receive SSI, we may withhold your overpayment from a Federal Income Tax refund and/or from any future Social Security benefits you may receive. If you become eligible for SSI in the future, we will withhold your overpayment from future SSI payments.

What is the Social Security 5 year rule?

You must have worked and paid Social Security taxes in five of the last 10 years. If you also get a pension from a job where you didn't pay Social Security taxes (e.g., a civil service or teacher's pension), your Social Security benefit might be reduced.

What To Do When SS Benefits Are Being Stopped

Can Social Security cut your benefits without notice?

We send you a notice before we make a change to your benefit amount or eligibility. We will send a notice whenever we must tell you about activity on your case.

What is the Social Security loophole?

The Voluntary Suspension Loophole

This Social Security loophole allowed a married worker to voluntarily suspend his/her own benefits after full retirement age, allowing the spouse to receive spousal benefits while the worker was not collecting benefits.

What is the lowest Social Security payment?

For 2021, the minimum earnings threshold was $15,930, and it increased to $16,380 in 2022. For 2022, a worker with 11 years of coverage receives a special minimum Social Security benefit of $45.50 per month, while a worker with 30 years of coverage gets a special minimum benefit of $950.80 per month.

What happens if Social Security cuts you off?

If they determine that you no longer qualify for a disabling condition, the SSA will send you a letter terminating your benefits. You will still receive your SSDI benefits for two months after they determine that you are no longer disabled to the point that you cannot work.

How long does it take for Social Security to suspend your benefits?

If you are already entitled to benefits, you may voluntarily suspend retirement benefit payments up to age 70. Your benefits will be suspended beginning the month after you make the request. We pay Social Security benefits the month after they are due.

Why were my Social Security retirement benefits suspended?

Going above income or asset limits

If your income or assets rise above the limit for SSI eligibility, then benefits will stop. In 2022, the income limit is 841 dollars per month and the asset limit is 2,000 dollars.

Can the government cut your Social Security?

If you receive a retirement or disability pension from a federal, state, or local government based on your own work for which you didn't pay Social Security taxes, we may reduce your Social Security spouses or widows or widowers benefits. This fact sheet provides answers to questions you may have about the reduction.