Lupus 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;

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Renal Disease Disability Attorney

Anyone with Renal Disease can attest to how debilitating the disease can be to the body. Social Security Disability has a listing called Impairment of the renal function, the technical listing requires the following:

Renal impairment because of chronic renal disease expected to last 12 months, hypertensive vascular disease, chronic nephritis, nephrolithiasis, polycystic disease, bilateral hydronephrosis, with:

Chronic hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis necessitated by irreversible renal fialure; or

Kidney transplant

Persistent elevation of serum creatine in to 4 mg per deciliter(100 ml) or greater or ...

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Cirrhosis Liver Disability Attorney

Under Social Security Disability chronic liver disease includes portal, postnecrotic or biliary cirrhosis; chronic hepatitis; Wilson’s Disease.

Here is the short medical requirements that you must meet for Cirrhosis of the liver:

Esophageal varices, shown by endoscopy or x-ray; or

Performance of a shunt operation for esophageal varices; or

Serum bilirubin of 2.5 mg per deciliter (100ml.) or greater persisting on repeated examinations for at least 5 months; or

Ascites, with other attributable causes ruled out, persistent for 5 months or reoccurring; or

Hepatic encephalapathy; or

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Interstitial Cystitis Disability Attorney

Interstitial Cystitis is a very painful bladder condition that effects women much more frequently than men. At the current time there is not a listing under Social Security Disability for this disabling condition, but this does not mean you cannot be found disabled if you suffer from Interstitial Cystitis, I have successfully argued a case involving it. There is hope in your case, and it is found under the new guidance rules posted by Social Security for this condition.

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Arterial Disease Disability Attorney

Arterial 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 ...

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Congestive Heart Failure Disability

Under 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 ...

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Back Injury Disability Attorney

I have had several cases involving back injuries, many people through no fault of their own have hurt their back over the years of work, and have to undergo surgery as a result, many times leaving them unable to work, and thus applying for Social Security Disability. Many times these disabilities become prevalent in the lower part of the back or lumbosacral area.

Spine disorders include, herniated nucleus, spinal arachnoiditis, spinal stenosis, osteorarthritis, degenerative disc disease, facet arthritis, verebral fracture with:

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Disability Insurance Benefits Attorney

Often I am asked what is the difference between Disability Insurance Benefits and SSI, and is it important to me? There is a very big difference between the two programs.

Disability Insurance Benefits, ie (DIB), is not a need based program, meaning, it is based on your ability to work, strictly speaking, Are you disabled under the governments rules? To qualify for DIB you first must have worked enough over the last ten years to have enough credits, generally most people ...

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Multiple Sclerosis Disability Attorney

Multiple Sclerosis under Social Security Disability is listed as the following:

(a) Disorganization of motor function as described in 11.04B; or

(b) Visual or mental impairment as described under the criteria in 2.02, 2.03, 2.04 or 12.02; or

(c) Significant, reproducible fatigue of motor function with substantial muscle weakness on repetative activity, demonstrated on physical examination, resulting from neurological dysfunction in the areas of the central nervous system known to be pathologically involved by the multiple sclerosis process.

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