Hiring Disability Attorney? You might ask, what is involved in hiring disability attorney? The question can be complex, some people in the social security disability field who represent people are only advocates, meaning they are probably not attorneys. Once you have decided to hire an attorney and not just an advocate, what is next? In your decisions about hiring disability attorney, please call us for any questions you might have, ...
As an MS disability attorney I keep updated on MS medications and types. MS also known by its full name Multiple Sclerosis is a deadly disease. As your MS disability attorney I understand that MS attacks the brain and central nervous system. The progression of the disease can lead to severe problems with normal autonomic functions, such as digestion, heart rate, breathing and salivation. In latter stages of ...
You have worked your entire life, you become disabled, what are your options? The process of applying for disability can be an enormous task, there are deadlines to meet, appeals to file, and in most cases a hearing before a Federal Administrative Law Judge.
Where to apply for disability? You may apply either by telephone, in person at the office of Social Security, by mail, and by the website of the Social Security Department.
What happens after I apply, will I automatically get my disability? ...
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Under 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 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 ShareThere is a listing under the rules of Social Security Disability entitled Central Nervous System Vascular Accident, this is where the listing for a stroke is contained. Social Security Disability requires the following, for you to be declared disabled under the listing of a stroke:
- Sensory or moro aphasia resulting in ineffective speech or communication; or
- Significant and persistent disorganization of motor function in two extremities, resulting in sustained disturbance of gross and dexterous movements, or gait and station.
A stroke may inflict many ...
Continue Reading ShareThere is a listing under Social Security Disability for poor vision. The listings for poor vision or being blind is very technical in nature, the listings are as follows:
- Impairment of central visual acuity
- Contraction of peripheral visual fields in the better eye
- Loss of visual efficiency
- Complete homonymous hemianopsia
- Total bilateral ophthalinopiegia
Each of the above listings require a medical technical explanation, however it is possible to not meet the technical listings and still be declared disabled under the listing of poor vision. Things that have to be considered range from, how ...
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