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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.

Multiple Sclerosis is a disease based on ...

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Stroke Disability Attorney

There 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 ...

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Tennessee Disability Attorney

As 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 ...

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Blind Disability

There 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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Disability Jobs

Often you may here someone say, “Social Security Disability said I can take up tickets at a toll booth, they don’t think I am disabled”. What that person is really talking about is called unskilled work, skilled work, and or transferable job skills. Under Social Security there will be a determination made as to whether your past work was unskilled or skilled, and it has very important consequences.

Lets first start with who decides whether you had an unskilled job, or skilled job, Social ...

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How to Qualify for Disability

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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Nashville Disability Attorney

You have worked your entire life and suddenly through no fault of your own you become disabled, what do you do? I hear this scenario over and over again in Tennessee, it is a difficult situation to find oneself in. The first thing that you need to do is get your initial Social Security Disability application filed, you can do this by dialing 1 (800) 772-1213, I would recommend calling on the days of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, it seems ...

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