Congratulations on winning the award! I've been on SSDI about 20 years and want to give you some brief advice. Social Security may contact you about every three years for a review. It will be done by correspondence and it will be nothing like what you had to go through to get your award.
That's not completely true.
The process does start out with correspondence and a short questionnaire to fill out about ongoing treatments and any new symptoms or diseases, etc. But about 10% will get the long form questionnaire, which is a bear to fill out. And many times, the SSA rep conducting the CDR (Continuing Disability Review) isn't satisfied with the answers, even if you're regularly seeing doctors. Then you will be sent to specialists for medical and/or psychiatric exam, just like you went through prior to the hearing when appealing the initial denial.
This happened to me last year, about 2.5 years after getting my SSDI. The psych interview was scheduled first, and I failed that so badly that the medical exam was cancelled. I was put on a three year review schedule even though I'll be over 60 when the next one rolls around.
Whatever you do, make sure your wife sees a doctor at least three times a year. And document every single test that's run. Keep results of all tests, and all prescriptions taken. I cannot emphasize this enough. SSA is being pressured by the bureaucrats in D.C. to go after disability recipients as if everyone is on the take for fraud.
SSDI is going broke thanks to poor funding decisions by Congress, so SSA employees are looking for ways to save SSDI money, which basically means finding folks whom they can somewhat justify kicking out of the program, even if those recipients are truly disabled.
This is why SSA has now started pulling benefits from some recipients who are over 60. That used to be unheard of in the past, but not anymore. Congress is deliberately forcing SSDI into this situation, which means desperate measures on the part of SSA employees to look for savings any place they can find them. And if that means pushing someone off SSDI at 62 and onto partial payment SSA retirement benefits, they'll do it. And this situation is only bound to get worse.