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Can I Get Disability Benefits for Liver Damage?

Liver damage is primarily caused by chronic liver disease, which can result from alcohol and drug abuse, genetic disorders, exposure to environm...

What Evidence Should Be in Your Medical Records Before You Apply for Disability

When you apply for either SSI or SSDI, you will need to provide medical evidence of your disability to the Social Security Administration (SSA). The S...

Is Citizen or Alien Status Required for SSDI Benefits?

One of the non-medical requirements that you need to meet to be eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), a federal program that p...

What Is Your RFC and How Can It Get You Disability Benefits?

Your residual functional capacity (RFC) is your remaining ability to do work-related physical and mental activities. The SSA will assess your conditio...

Overview of the SSDI Program

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a federal program administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that pays monthly benefits t...

How Many Work Credits Are Required for SSDI Benefits?

One of the non-medical eligibility requirements for SSDI is having enough "work credits." Each work credit is based on having earned and paid Social S...

Social Security: What's Considered Activities of Daily Living?

Activities of Daily Living refers to a form that you will receive from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This form is a questionnaire abou...

Disability Hearings in Arkansas

If you have been denied twice and properly appealed, your case is now at the Administrative Law Judge (Hearing) phase. This is your best opportunity...

How to Apply for Social Security Disability

Social Security Disability benefits are available to those who suffer a covered long term disability. This means it must be a disability that is e...

Can You Work and Collect Disability Benefits?

The decision of whether or not to attempt to work is complicated because it involves consideration of personal, medical, vocational and legal issu...

What is the Definition of Disability?

Social Security defines disability as “the inability to work at any job that is appropriate given the combined effect of the client’s functional...

So How Long Does It Really Take??

Just a few years ago, I dreaded being the first person to tell a new client just how long it would take to get a hearing before a judge. From th...

Social Security Disability Requirements for Adults

The Social Security Administration developed a five-step process in order to determine whether a person is disabled under the rules and thus wheth...

How to Win a Social Security Disability Case

This is a very fundamental question but has a very long and complicated answer. Indeed, the Social Security Disability laws and regulations are ...

How Long Will it Take to Get Social Security Disability?

This is a question that we at New Jersey Disability Lawyers get all the time. In most cases it takes 3-5 months for you to receive a decision on your ...

Social Security Benefits for Depression

If you have mania, depression, or bipolar disorder, Social Security disability benefits may be available. To determine whether you are disabled by...

How to Get Social Security Disability

The process for obtaining Social Security Disability benefits is rarely easy nor is it self-evident. There are many steps and barriers and the old t...

My Application For Social Security Benefits Has Been Denied. Now What?

Unless you are terminally ill or have a condition that meets very strict requirements, chances are that your application for Social Security disabil...

SSDI for Minors

Minors can get SSDI checks if their parent is receiving SSDI benefits. The max benefit for child social security benefits is half of the parent�...

Things You Need to Know When Applying for SSDI Benefits

Nobody wants to think that they would become disabled in the future. But for many Americans, disability is often an inevitability as according to the ...

Social Security Denied Your Benefits Claim: What Now?

Nearly two percent of the American population applies for Social Security disability (SSD) benefits every year. SSD benefits are available to peop...

How Does Social Security Determine If I am Disabled?

How Social Security determines whether you are disabled seems like a mystery. Just what does Social Security do with all of the information they c...

Social Security Disability Hearings: What to Expect from Your ALJ

You may file for a Social Security Disability hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) once your initial application and request for reconsi...

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