BACK OR NECK PAIN AND YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY CASEFew medical problems are more painful and disabling than a disease or injury to your lumbosacral spine (BACK) or your cervical spine (NECK). Social Security Disability benefits are there for you if your back or...
Social Security Disability Benefits For Illness
HELP! SOCIAL SECURITY WANTS TO CUT MY DISABILITY BENEFITS!
Sometimes, the Social Security Disability Administration will try to cut your benefits under a "Continuing Disability Review," or "CDR." If this happens, all is far from lost. You can elect to fight a decision to cut your benefits. You can also elect to keep getting...
DAILY LIVING ACTIVITY AND YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY CASE
The Social Security Administration or Law Judge must determine whether you are able to perform any gainful employment-not just the job you are trained for. How you get through your day-the tasks and errands you can do for yourself, and those you can't-are an important...
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION WIDOW’S BENEFITS IN A HIGHLY UNUSUAL CASE
In 1999 I won lifetime benefits for a dye and ink mixer named Jimmy Blackwell (not his real name) who had hurt his back in 1993. In 2017, Jimmy's wife visited me to report that he had died of pulmonary fibrosis. Jimmy hadn't worked in many decades, so I advised his...
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY – JUSTICE FOR THE DISABLED
What happens after you file a claim for Social Security Disability benefits and you are not immediately granted the benefits you deserve based on your doctor's reports?Sometimes, the Social Security Disability administration will send you to a medical...
ONE MILLION DOLLARS PLUS IN SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS!
I am proud to announce that last year we recovered more than one million dollars in Social Security Disability benefits for our clients. We won those benefits in a variety of ways: some on written applications, some by argument at Social Security Disability...
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE DISABLED
You may have been injured in an accident and unable to work, or you may have a disease or other medical condition--but to win Social Security Disability benefits you must prove to the Social Security Administration that you are unable to engage in "substantial...
CÓMO DETERMINAR SU FECHA DE INCAPACIDAD EN SU CASO DE SEGURO SOCIAL
Si está totalmente incapacitado por una condición médica grave - por una cirugía como la fusión espinal o otra cirugía, reemplazo de hombro o rodilla, diabetes o cáncer, o cualquier otra condición incapacitante grave - una de las partes más importantes de su caso es...
Seguro Social de Incapacidad: Mirando hacia el 2017
Cada año, la Administración del Seguro Social hace cambios a los Beneficios de Incapacidad del Seguro Social (SSDI) y a las reglas que gobiernan cómo puede obtener esos beneficios. Por ejemplo, el umbral en 2017 fue aumentado para la actividad sustancial ganancia a...
Social Security Disability: Looking ahead to 2017
Every year the Social Security Administration makes changes to Social Security Disability benefits (SSDI) and to the rules that govern how you can get those benefits. For instance, the threshold in 2017 was raised for Substantial Gainful Activity to $1,170.00 per...