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What is DDS, or disability determination services ?When you apply for social security disability or SSI disability, your disability application will typically be taken at a social security office. However, your disability application will not be processed at a social security office, but, instead, at a state agency. The Social Security Administration uses state disability agencies to process medical determinations. Each state has at least one disability agency (and some have more than one agency) which is responsible for making Social Security disability and SSI decisions. In some states, the state agency is known as disability determination services and in other states the agency that makes medical decisions on claims is known as the bureau of disability determination. However, regardless of the name used in a particular state, all such state agencies perform the same function. And that function is this. Once a disability claim has been taken by a local Social Security office (or via the toll free Social Security number), the claim is forwarded to the state agency and there it is assigned to a disability examiner who will gather the needed medical records from a claimant's treatment sources (doctors and hospitals). After these records have been obtained, a disability claim will be approved or denied by the disability examiner and a decisional notice will be sent to the claimant. For more information on: Social Security Disability and SSI Disability.
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