@backwardshatbarrister: If your disability benefits stopped because you returned to work, you may not have to start over with a brand-new application. Expedited Reinstatement, or EXR, may allow certain former SSDI or SSI recipients to restart benefits if they can no longer work because of the same or a related medical condition. You generally have to request it within five years of your benefits ending, and you may even qualify for temporary benefits while Social Security reviews the request. Save this one. Most people have never heard of EXR until they need it.