Social Security disability
Disability benefits in Mississippi
Social Security rules are the same in every state. This page covers what is different in Mississippi: who decides your claim, state money added to SSI, Medicaid, hearings and free help.
You have 60 days to appeal each decision, plus 5 days for mail.
Who decides your claim in Mississippi?
Disability Determination Services (DDS)
This state office works with Social Security to decide the medical part of Social Security disability (SSDI) and SSI claims. It handles claims from all 23 Social Security offices in Mississippi. A disability examiner gets your medical and work records and decides if you meet Social Security's rules.
- Part of
- Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services (MDRS)
- Phone
- 1-800-962-2230
If the records from your own doctor are not complete, the examiner may ask for a consultative exam (CE). The exam costs you nothing.
Mississippi has 23 Social Security offices. Find a Social Security office
Does Mississippi add money to SSI?
Mississippi has no state supplement for people who apply for SSI now. Social Security still adds a small state amount for a few people who got state aid before 1974.
Medicaid in Mississippi
If you get SSI in Mississippi, you also get Medicaid. You do not need a separate Medicaid application. Social Security sends your information to the state.
- Program
- Mississippi Medicaid
- Medicaid agency
- Mississippi Division of Medicaid
https://medicaid.ms.gov/
1-800-421-2408
State disability and paid leave in Mississippi
Mississippi has no state-run short-term disability or paid medical leave program listed here.
Hearing offices and federal court in Mississippi
3 hearing offices serve Mississippi. Hearing office locator (Social Security)
Jackson, MS Hearing Office
Hearing office
- Address
- McCoy Federal Building, Suite 401, 100 West Capitol Street, Jackson, MS 39269
- Phone
- (888) 385-8499
- Fax
- (833) 604-0732
Tupelo, MS Hearing Office
Hearing office
- Address
- Suite 3A, 1150 South Green Street, Tupelo, MS 38804
- Phone
- (866) 275-9405
- Fax
- (833) 508-0572
Hattiesburg, MS Hearing Office
Hearing office
- Address
- 1901 Broadway Drive, Hattiesburg, MS 39402
- Fax
- (833) 968-1658
Federal district court
If you appeal to federal court, you file in the district court that covers your county.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
Court help for people without a lawyer
Counties covered (37)
- Alcorn
- Chickasaw
- Choctaw
- Clay
- Itawamba
- Lee
- Lowndes
- Monroe
- Oktibbeha
- Prentiss
- Tishomingo
- Webster
- Winston
- Benton
- Calhoun
- DeSoto
- Lafayette
- Marshall
- Panola
- Pontotoc
- Quitman
- Tallahatchie
- Tate
- Tippah
- Tunica
- Union
- Yalobusha
- Attala
- Bolivar
- Carroll
- Coahoma
- Grenada
- Humphreys
- Leflore
- Montgomery
- Sunflower
- Washington
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Counties covered (45)
- Copiah
- Hinds
- Holmes
- Issaquena
- Kemper
- Lauderdale
- Leake
- Madison
- Neshoba
- Newton
- Noxubee
- Rankin
- Scott
- Simpson
- Sharkey
- Smith
- Warren
- Yazoo
- George
- Greene
- Hancock
- Harrison
- Jackson
- Pearl River
- Stone
- Clarke
- Covington
- Forrest
- Jasper
- Jefferson Davis
- Jones
- Lamar
- Lawrence
- Marion
- Perry
- Wayne
- Walthall
- Adams
- Amite
- Claiborne
- Franklin
- Jefferson
- Lincoln
- Pike
- Wilkinson
Free help in Mississippi
Protection & Advocacy agency (P&A)
Disability Rights Mississippi
- Phone
- 601-968-0600 (toll-free 800-772-4057, voice/TDD)
- Website
- https://www.drms.ms/
Legal aid
- Mississippi Center for Legal Services · 1-800-773-1737
https://mscenterforlegalservices.org/ - North Mississippi Rural Legal Services · 1-800-898-8731 (Intake Call Center)
https://nmrls.com/
Serves: 39 counties in northern Mississippi
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services (MDRS), Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
- Phone
- 1-800-443-1000
- Website
- https://www.mdrs.ms.gov/
Good to know in Mississippi
More RobinClaim guides for Mississippi → · All states
Sources
- SSA POMS SI 01415.010 - Administration of State Supplementary Programs (state table)
- SSA POMS SI 01415.058 - Federally Administered Optional Supplementary Payment Programs for January 2026
- SSA POMS SI 01415.024 - States Electing to Maintain Mandatory Minimum Supplementary Payment Levels
- SSA POMS SI 01715.010 - Medicaid and the SSI Program
- MDRS - Disability Determination Services
- MDRS - Mississippi ABLE
- Mississippi ABLE (savewithable.com)
- Mississippi Division of Medicaid
- NDRN - Member Agencies (Mississippi)
- LSC - Our Grantees
- 28 U.S.C. §104 - Mississippi (govinfo)
- Social Security: hearing office locator
Last checked: November 2026