SSDRC




What is the Application Process for Social Security Disability and SSI?

How do you Win Benefits under Social Security Disability or SSI?

If I am determined disabled, how far back will Social Security pay benefits?

How do you prove your disability case if you have a mental condition?

What Can I Do to Improve My Chances of Winning Disability Benefits

Common Mistakes after Receiving a Denial of Social Security Disability or SSI Benefits

How to File for Disability - Tips for Filing

If You Get Approved For SSDI Will You Also Get Medicare?

How much does a Social Security disability attorney get paid?

Social Security Disability SSI Criteria and the Evaluation Process

How long does it take to be approved for SSI or Social Security disability?

What do you Need to Prove to Qualify for Disability Benefits?

Social Security Disability SSI and Fibromyalgia

Social Security Disability SSI and Degenerative Disc Disease

Can I Qualify For Disability and Receive Benefits based on Depression?

Answers to questions about SSD and SSI disability

What Disabilities Qualify for SSI and Social Security Disability Benefits?

Social Security Disability Status

Social Security Disability Tips — how a claim gets worked on

Social Security Disability, SSI Disability - Terms, Definitions, Concepts


Does social security contact your former work employers when you file for disability?


How to prove you are disabled
and win disability benefits

 
This is not typically what decision-makers on social security disability claims do. The decision-makers, for those who are unaware, are disability examiners and disability judges (administrative law judges). Disability examiners render decisions on SSD and SSI claims at the disability application and reconsideration appeal levels. Administrative law judges, of course, render decisions at the disability hearing level.

Disability examiners will ordinarily rely on work activity questionaires supplied by a claimant during the application and evaluation process to do the following:

1. Classify a claimant's past work.

2. Determine the nature of the claimant's past work in terms of the physical and mental demands of the claimant's relevant jobs.

3. Compare the demands of the claimant's past work so that this may be compared to the present capabilities of the claimant, known as the claimant's residual functional capacity, or RFC.

It should be clear, then, that properly classifying the claimant's past jobs is extremely important since it can literally influence the outcome of a disability case. Therefore, despite the fact that disability examiners generally rely on the information provided by a claimant in a work history report or work activity questionaire, there are occasions in which an examiner will contact a claimant's former employer. As a disability examiner, I myself did this to learn more about what a claimant's work duties were for a particular job and to learn also what difficulties the claimant had in performing these duties.














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Topics and Questions


  • If you get denied on a disability appeal can you get another appeal ?

  • The Social Security Disability Approval

  • Social Security Disability, SSI and Being Over the Age of Fifty, 50

  • What Can You Do TO Make Sure Your Social Security Disability Reconsideration Gets Approved?

  • Do I Need a Lawyer for My Social Security Disability Hearing?

  • Applying for disability benefits in Illinois

  • How Long Does Your Attorney Have To File Your Social Security Disability Appeal?

  • Will You Get Social Security Disability Benefits If You Cannot Work Your Old Job?

  • Social Security Disability and the Job that You Worked

  • How to File for SSI

  • Doing the SSDI Appeal Online

  • How long does it take to get SSI Disability Benefits?

  • How does the Social Security disability (and SSI) appeals process work?

  • What happens when you go to a Social Security disability hearing ?

  • Social Security Notice of Denial for a Disability Application or Appeal

  • What makes a person eligible to receive disability benefits?

  • Filing an Application for Disability Benefits under SSD or SSI

  • Social Security Disability Hearing-How Do I Request One?

  • What Does It Mean If you Are Denied For Disability Because Of Other Work?

  • Hiring a Qualified Disability Lawyer in Hawaii

  • If I Get Denied Twice For Disability, What Do I Do?

  • When Social Security Disability Is Awarded Do You Get A Notice, And What Does It Say?

  • How Long Does A Social Security Disability Appeal Take?

  • How Long Does It Take To Get SSDI If You Have To Appeal?
























    SSD and SSI are Federal Programs

    The title II Social Security Disability and title 16 SSI Disability programs operate under federal guidelines and, therefore, the program requirements--medical and non-medical--apply to all states:

    Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

    Recent approval and denial statistics for various states can be viewed here:

    Social Security Disability, SSI Approval and Denial Statistics by state

    Special Section: Disability Lawyers and unnecessary claim denials