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Show Social Security Opens Doors for " Overlapping Benefits1 If it Is your understanding that you cannot receive disability Insurance payments at the same time you receive disability payments pay-ments from another Federal or State Agency, you should get In touch with the social security of-flee, of-flee, according to Kesler T.-Pow. ell, district manager of the Pro vo social security office. Although earlier Social Seccur-lty Seccur-lty Act amendments provided for an offset or disability insurance benefits against any other Fed- this offset was removed by the 1958 amendments. Beginning with August, 1958, lt has been possible for qualified disabled workers to receive the full social so-cial security disability payments to which they are entitled regardless re-gardless of the receipt of any other disability payments. To qualify for social security disability payments at age 50, the worker must have worked for at least five out of ten years before becoming disabled. In addition, the worker must be too disabled to engage in any substantial, gainful activity. If you have not applied for disability payments solely because be-cause the benefit would be offset against some other disability payment you were already receiving, re-ceiving, you should contact a representative of the Social Security Se-curity Adlmlnstratlon. |