Getting Disability While on Maternity Leave
Unfortunately, there is no uniform program that provides financial assistance to women who go on maternity leave. The Social Security Administratio...
Depression and Pain in Social Security Disability Claims
Although it is commonly known in the professional mental health community that symptoms of depression include body pain, researchers have been finding...
Is Visual Impairment a Disability?
There are many maladies, diseases, and physical deficiencies which qualify one for Social Security Disability or SSI claims. In the case of vi...
Disability Benefits for Obesity?
Obesity is a term used to describe people whose weight is higher than what is considered healthy. Obesity is established based on a person’s body...
How to Get SSI Benefits For a Premature Baby
Premature babies, those born before 37 weeks, often suffer from low birth weight and underdeveloped lungs and other organs. They have a greater risk...
Finding your Insurance's Definition of Total Disability
If you have become disabled, you may be wondering how to figure out what your insurance company considers total disability. A lot of the time,...
The Countable Income Test: How it works
The countable income test can be confusing, but there are some basic concepts that if you can grasp them will help you understand this important cal...
Precautions to take to Avoid Disability Fraud
What some people call long-term disability (LTD) fraud is actually insurance bad faith.
Is Fibromyalgia Covered by Social Security Disability?
Fibromyalgia is a disorder that causes musculoskeletal pain and soft tissue tenderness throughout the body. Common symptoms include numerous tende...
Is Bipolar Disorder Covered Under Social Security Disability?
Bipolar disorder is one of the listed impairments in the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) impairment listing manual. Therefore, if you suf...
Reconstructive Disability Benefits
It has become more and more common for people to undergo hip, knee, and /or ankle reconstructive surgery. Unfortunately, these types of reconst...
Soft Issue Injury Disability Benefits
In most cases, soft tissue injuries occur from accidents, such as motor vehicle accidents, motorcycle accidents, and work-related trauma. In m...
Malignant Neoplastic Disorders Disability Benefits
Cancer is a generic term for malignant neoplasms. A malignant neoplastic disease is defined as any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal ...
Multiple Disabilites
Impairments that affect multiple body systems include Down’s syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities. Down syndrome occurs when a person has...
Endocrine System Disorders and Disability Benefits
The endocrine system regulates all the hormones in your body, and includes the pancreas, ovaries, testes, thyroid, pituitary, pineal, and adrenal glan...
Hematological Disorders and Social Security Disability Benefits
The Listing of Impairments has a section dedicated to blood disorder impairments, also called hematological disorders, which will set out below. Note ...
Immune System Disability Benefits
The immune system, when working properly, helps the body fight diseases by attacking and destroying the cells causing the disorder. However, whe...
Genitourinary Urinary and Genital Disability Benefits
Genitourinary diseases can include medical conditions within the reproductive system and the urinary system, including the kidneys. Diseases inclu...
Cardiovascular Disorders Disability Benefits
According to the American Heart Association, over 80,000 Americans have one form or another of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease encompasses an...
Speech and Sense Disability Benefits
Most problems that afflict the special senses are the result of normal aging. As people grow older, their eyes can become dry and are more prone t...
Musculoskeletal Disorder Disability Benefits
Musculoskeletal is a general term, which is defined as relating to the muscles and the skeleton. The musculoskeletal system involves...
Neurological Disorders and Disability Benefits: An Overview
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from neurological disorders, including epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, mul...
Skin Disorder Disability
If you suffer from a chronic skin disorder that prevents you from working full-time, the Social Security Administration (SSA) may grant you disa...
Stroke Disability Benefits
Stroke is the leading cause of disability in both the United States and Europe, which means that many victims seek disability benefits from the ...
Disability Compensation for Developmental Aphasia
Brain damage can cause serious, lifelong problems for people. One problem caused by brain damage is developmental aphasia. Developmental aphasia...
Getting Disability Benefits for Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder is a long term disruptive psychiatric condition that causes an individual to have intense mood swings. A person with bipolar can ...
Disability Benefits for RSD or CRPS
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) result from an injury, disease or even surgery to a limb (arm/leg). I...
Disability Benefits for Severe Headaches
A diagnosis of migraine headaches by a neurologist will be considered by Social Security. If you have followed your doctor's treatment plan but co...
getting disability benefits
Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points. The American College of Rheumatology has developed cri...
Recent Decision on Disability Benefits for Chronic Pain
In a recent federal court decision concerning social security disability benefits based on chronic severe pain, the court found that the judge is requ...
Disability Benefits and Eligibility Changes for Arthritis
Let’s look at the evolution of the listing for inflammatory or rheumatoid arthritis. The first listing was basically a list of diagnosed condition w...
Social Security Disability for CFS
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been a controversial diagnosis and in 1999 Social Security provided guidance to all their disability decision mak...
Long-Term Disability Plans
Basically, there are two types of long term disability plans: an employer plan and an individual (private) plan. Employer plans are usually part of ...
Disability Benefits for Cardiovascular Diseases
Our heart is a big pumping muscle, in the middle of our chest, constantly sending blood circulating throughout the body to enrich us with oxygen or ...
Staged Conditions and Disability Compensation Payments
Some listed impairments are staged by treating sources. Staging is a progression and shows a worsening condition. While the concept of staging i...
Disability Benefits for Episodic Impairments
Many unlisted impairments are also episodic in character. For instance, migraine headaches can be compared to seizures as they are both episodic i...
Disability Claims for Spinal Cord Disorder
Historically, musculoskeletal and mental impairments account for the major cause of disability among social security disability beneficiaries and a ...
Disability Benefits for Arthritis
Arthritis occurs when there is inflammation of the joints. Fractures or breaks in the bone, obesity, age, autoimmune disorders, and bacterial or vir...
Getting Disability for Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that causes changes to the nervous system that can make it difficult to work. It affects more wom...
Disability Benefits Available for HIV/AIDS
Social Security disability benefits are available for people who are HIV-positive and have symptoms of acquired immune deficiency disease (AIDs) tha...
Social Security Disability Benefits for Degenerative Disc Disease
Degenerative disc disease (DDD) is a fairly common reason for people to apply for Social Security disability benefits. Degenerative disc disease (so...
Disability for Chronic Heart Condition
Chronic heart failure or congestive heart failure (CHF) is when your heart cannot pump enough blood to your body adequately. This can happen due to ...
Disability Benefits for Cancer Treatment
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of certain cells in your body that leads to organ failures and masses that invade other parts of your body interfe...
