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How do I file for Social Security disability ?


If you have medical and/or mental conditions that have prevented you from working or have caused you stop working, you should contact the Social Security Administration and file for Social Security disability. The Social Security administration will set up a disability appointment for you to file your claim.

What will you need to bring to the interview? You should be prepared to give Social Security the names of your physicians, dates of treatment, and medications that you are taking.

Additionally, you will need to provide a work history, which includes the types of jobs that you have done in the past fifteen years as well as the dates that you performed each type of job.

Once you have completed you Social Security interview, your claim will be to the state agency responsible for Social Security medical decisions.



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