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What does this mean? A: Social Security Disability eligibility is a complex system (which is why it's a good idea to work with a social security lawyer). For you to be eligible to be "insured" for SS Disability, you will generally (though not always) need to have earned 20 credits during the last ten years of work. This is a rolling ten year period that is supposed to end on the day that your disability is judged to have begun. Unfortunately, due to the combination of rules requiring a certain number of credits for people of a certain age, and a certain number of those credits earned in the last 10 years, not meeting the credit requirements is easy. Any social security lawyer or advocate can tell you to expect this to happen if you haven't worked enough.