Bipolar disability is a very real medical condition that effects millions of people. Social Security refers to Bipolar disability as an affective disorder. This disability is charaterized by a disturbance of mood, along with manic episodes or depressive episodes. It sometimes can be somewhat controlled by medication, I have found that my clients can controll their Bipolar better with the medication, but the side effects from the mental health drugs are so great that it does not allow them to sustain ...
Continue Reading ShareUnder Social Security Disability one can be deemed disabled due to the complications from a heart attack. Most of the clients I have represented who have suffered from a heart attack have far more complications after their attack. Many of these include stent placement surgeries, strong medications, limits on their mobility and stamina, additional hardware placed in or around their heart, and further surgeries to repair possible damaged arteries or valves. All of these complications either alone or combined are very ...
Continue Reading ShareSeizures, more medically termed Epilepsy is a neurological disorder. Social Security Disability has two listings that involve seizures, one is called Epilepsy non convulsive, the other one is called Epilepsy convulsive. Under the rules of Social Security Disability your impairment due to seizures will be determined based on several factors, including; type of seizures; the amount of time they last; the presence or absence of the aura; any injuries you sustain because of the ongoing seizures; sphincter control; tongue bits. All ...
Continue Reading ShareUnder listing 12.03 Social Security Disability lists the requirements for Paranoid Schizophrenia, the requirements are as follows:
A. Medical documented persistence, either continuous or intermittent, of one or more of the following:
1.Delusions, hallucinations; or
2. Catatonic or other grossly disorganized behavior; or
3. Incoherence, loosening of associates, illogical thinking or poverty of content of speech if associated with one of the following;
a. Blunt effect; or
b. Flat effect; or
c. Inappropriate affect; or
4. Emotional withdrawal and or isolation; and
B. Resulting in at least two of the ...
Continue Reading ShareLupus is a disabling diseases that is recognized by Social Security Disability under listing 14.02, you meet the listing if the following is true about your claim:
A. One of the following:
1. Joint involvement as described under the criteria 1.00; or
2. Muscle involvement as described under the criteria in 14.05; or
3. Ocular involvement as descibed under the criteria in 2.00ff; or
4. Respiratory involvement as described under the criteria in 3.00ff; or
5. Cardiovascular involvement, as described under the criteria 4.00ff or 14.04D;
6. Digestive ...
Continue Reading ShareArterial Disease requires the following from the disability listing at Social Security:
A. Intermittent claudication with failure to visualize the common femoral or deep femoral artery in one extremity, (as shown by medical records); or
B. Intermittent claudication with marked impairment of peripheral arterial circulation as determined by Doppler studies showing:
1. Resting ankle/brachial systolic blood pressure ratio of less than 0.50; or
2. Decrease in systolic blood pressure at the ankle on exercise of 50 percent or more of the pre-exercise level at the ...
Continue Reading ShareUnder the listings for Social Security Disability there is a listing noted as Chronic heart failure. Meeting this listing puts the claimant in very poor health, the listing is so detailed that if you meet this listing your health is probably not very good at the moment.
The listing states the following:
(a) Documented cardiac enlargement by appropriate imaging techniques (a cardiothoracic ratio of greater than 0.50 on a PA chest x-ray with good inspiratory effort or left ventricular diastolic diameter of greater ...
Continue Reading ShareAs an Attorney representing people for their Social Security Disability I find that there are some important questions that have to be asked before the hearing or appeal of my clients claims, I thought I would share these questions with other individuals who might be in the middle of their Social Security Disability claim.
I start with the questions that in my opinion are important to Social Security, and they are as follows:
- How old was the client at the date they ...
How does one qualify for Disability, in regards to their work history and past earnings, this does not address the medical condition, this only addresses whether you qualify to be under the Disability Insurance should you also have the accompanying medical condition that renders you disabled.
The Social Security Administration has developed a simple chart, the credits that you need under the chart are earned during your working years. You will earn one credit for every $1,050.00 dollars you make each ...
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