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Social Security disability

Disability benefits in South Dakota

Social Security rules are the same in every state. This page covers what is different in South Dakota: 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.

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Who decides your claim in South Dakota?

South Dakota Disability Determination Services (DDS)

This state office decides the medical part of your Social Security disability claim. Social Security checks the other rules, like work credits and income.

Part of
South Dakota Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Rehabilitation Services

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Does South Dakota add money to SSI?

Optional State Supplemental Program

South Dakota pays an extra monthly amount to some adults on SSI. You must be 18 or older, not in school, live in South Dakota, and live on your own (a home, apartment, hotel room or boarding house room) or in someone else's household. The payment stops if you have income other than SSI. People in institutions, adult foster care or assisted living do not get this payment.

Paid by: the state

How to apply
You do not need to apply. The state Department of Social Services starts the payment when Social Security tells the state that you get SSI and meet the rules.
Contact
South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS)
605-773-3165
https://dss.sd.gov/

Medicaid in South Dakota

If you get SSI in South Dakota, you get South Dakota Medicaid. You do not need a separate Medicaid application.

Program
South Dakota Medicaid
Medicaid agency
South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS)
https://dss.sd.gov/medicaid/
605-773-3165

State disability and paid leave in South Dakota

South Dakota has no state-run short-term disability or paid medical leave program listed here.

Hearing offices and federal court in South Dakota

1 hearing office serves South Dakota. Hearing office locator (Social Security)

Sioux Falls, SD Satellite Office

Satellite office

Address
Suite 102, 3904 West Technology Circle, Sioux Falls, SD 57106
Fax
(833) 330-0045

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 District of South Dakota

Court help for people without a lawyer

Counties covered (1)
  • All counties in South Dakota (the whole state is one district with four divisions)

Free help in South Dakota

Protection & Advocacy agency (P&A)

Disability Rights South Dakota

Phone
605-224-8294 (toll-free 800-658-4782)

Legal aid

Benefits counseling and work (WIPA)

Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)

South Dakota Division of Rehabilitation Services, Department of Human Services

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Good to know in South Dakota

  • South Dakota's state supplement is run by the state, not Social Security. It goes only to SSI recipients with no other income who live on their own or in someone else's home. (ARSD 67:12:14)
  • The only SSA hearing office in South Dakota is a satellite office in Sioux Falls. (SSA hearing office locator)

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Sources

Last checked: November 2026