How many appeals are you allowed for disability or ssi ?

One way to answer this question is to say "as many appeals as you want". Why? Because the social security administration will allow a claimant to file as many social security disability and SSI applications as they want, and to go through the appeals process as often as they want.

However, an individual who's claim has been denied and who chooses to go through the SSA appeals process will, typically, need to file two appeals. The first appeal, following the denial of an inital claim, is called a reconsideration or review. The second appeal is known as a request for hearing before an administrative law judge. For many, if not most, claimants, the disability hearing level is as far as their case will go. This is true for two reasons. First of all, at least half of all cases that are brought before federal judges are approved. Secondly, many claimants who are denied by an administrative law judge at the disability hearing level will choose not to pursue further appeals but, instead, will choose to file a new disability application.