BEWARE OF SSDC SERVICES OR ALLSUP FOR YOUR DISABILITY CLAIM A CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Author • November 12, 2018
There are a lot of companies, such as Allsup or SSDC Services which claim to represent you but really protect the interests of the insurance company who may be providing your Long Term or Short Term disability benefits.
How It Works:
Quoting directly from SSDC website is the following:
“SSDC will secure authorization from the LTD recipient to initiate transfer of the LTD plan administrator’s calculated overpayment amount from the recipient’s bank account after the first retroactive SSDI payment has been deposited. After notification of an SSDI award and deposit of funds in the recipient’s account, SSDC will secure verbal confirmation from the recipient to proceed with withdrawal from the account. Periodic contacts by SSDC to remind client of obligation to repay LTD overpayment are mandatory.”
In other words, they, SSDC, Allsup, etc., takes your
money and gives it to the insurance company. Sadly, this is legal under the Social Security regulations. Not only do they not have real attorneys representing you, just “advocates,” you will never get to actually meet your “advocate” in person until the day you see the Federal Judge. By then, you will likely have gone through many “advocates” never knowing who is really representing you.
In the end you lose your back benefits. Clearly, SSDC, Allsup and the rest of the companies in the industry have an obvious conflict of interest and not your best interest in mind.
Avoid such companies who claim that they are FREE because in the end it will cost you your back benefits, possibly the entire claim, and then lose your LTD benefits also because a Judge said you were not disabled.
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