Yet another ridiculous post about the unemployed trying to make up the difference by filing for Social Security Disability. As hard as it is [very hard] and as long as it takes to get approved [anywhere from 6 months to 5 years], The real chances of anyone actually getting replacement income from Social Security is somewhere between slim and none. As lawyers handling Social Security claims in Knoxville and East Tennessee, our actual experience tells us that any such correlation is nonsense.