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Social Security Disability Appeals ProcessHow does the Social Security appeal process work? If your initial disability claim has been denied you have sixty-five days to file a reconsideration appeal. How do you do this? You should contact the Social Security Administration either locally or by calling the Social Security toll free number. Remember, if you contact the toll free number this does not extend your appeal period, so make sure that once your receive your appeal paperwork that you return it to your local office as soon as possible. A reconsideration usually takes a ninety days or less to receive a disability decision. If your reconsideration is denied don’t be discouraged because only about fifteen percent of all reconsiderations are allowed. You must remember state disability agency will use the same criteria to make the reconsideration decision as they did on your initial disability claim; the only thing that changes is the disability examiner. If you have received a reconsideration denial, what should you do? You should contact the Social Security Administration to receive the hearing’s review appeal paperwork as soon as possible, because you are bound by the same sixty-five day appeal period. Once your hearing review paperwork is received it will be forwarded to the hearing office to be scheduled for an administrative law judge hearing. Due to huge backlogs at most Social Security hearings offices; your hearing may take months to be scheduled. For more information on: Social Security Disability and SSI Disability.
A few words about Elder Law 
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