Social Security Administration will repay your Title II (see http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10024.html) Social Security benefits back to the date they were stopped if you are not convicted of a crime after your appeal. (For this to apply, all charges that you were convicted of must be reversed, you will not be tried again on these same charges, or, you are found not guilty after your new trial.) If you are receiving Supplemental Security Income payments (see http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/11000.html), your benefits will not be reinstated. While you are living in a public institution (for example, a jail, prison, detention center, etc.) for over a full calendar month, you cannot receive SSI payments.