Disability Lawyers and Finding your Disability Lawyer

• The definition of disability used by the Social Security Administration which is very different from other definitions of disability.



• The process for determining claims which involves five steps and which can result in an approval based on meeting or equaling the requirements of a disability listing, or by a finding that a person is not capable of going back to their past work or switching to other work they have never before done, but which might be suitable based on age, education, work skills, and residual functional capacity.



• What relevant work means and which jobs in a person's work history can be considered in their claim.



• The actual decision process used by disability examiners and by administrative law judges.



• The importance of a medical source statement and when and where that statement carries the most impact.



• Which types of medical evidence are useful to a case, as well as at what point to obtain that information and submit it to SSA or the hearing office.



• How vocational considerations impact a claim, as well as, and in combination with, medical evidence.



• How mental impairments are viewed and how they can impact a claim that involves both mental and physical impairments.



• What Social Security consultative exams mean, why they scheduled, and to what extent they usually affect cases.



• How to view RFC forms that have been completed by DDS examiners and medical and mental consultants and whether they accurately reflect the evidence obtained.



• Issues that affect claimants at hearings and which involve the speed of scheduling and decisions such as congressional inquiries, on the record decisions, and dire need.
• How to analyzle medical evidence for signs that listing in the SSA blue book can be met or equaled.