how much do you recive from ss for 19 months backpay after your lawyer are paid?
–Etta

Jonathan Ginsberg responds:  Etta, the calculation is as follows:

• create a column for each year that you are eligible for past due benefits
• find out how much you get per month for each month of past due eligibility
• add up the columns

Assuming you entered into a fee agreement with your lawyer, his fee will be 25% of past due benefits up to $5,300.  You get the rest less any deductions for Medicare or similar program.

Note that SSA increases your monthly benefit every year for something called "cost of living" so your monthly benefit for 2006 will be less than your benefit for 2007.