My claim for Social Security Disability was denied. What does a lawyer do to help the situation?

Question

I just got my letter of denial today. I know that now I'm "supposed" to get a lawer to fight the decision.

What exactly will a lawer do that makes them change their mind? Do they fill out forms, or testify, or what....?

Answer 1

They know how to work the system. I hear most people usually get turned down the first time regardless of how severe their condition is.
Make sure you have plenty of documentation from your doctors clearly stating why you are disabled.
Look in your yellow pages for disability lawyers they advertize on tv all the time. Good luck with your appeal.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Your "physical proof" that you've had a disability over a length of time and that it will stay that way in the future that gets you on SSD. You should always start out with having a SS attorney. You don't pay till it's thru the court system, so go thru the yellow pages, find out which attorneys are specializing in SSD and talk with them.

Lawyers have their paralegals take your application on the phone if you can't get to their office, they will determine if they can take the case or not, and then they will research your case. You provide them with the doctors names, where you've had your x-rays and when, and all what happened to you and when, and how you are feeling, what jobs you've tried for, etc. In court is it between you and the judge (so you need to be prepared with proof in hand for him).

Lawyers are a member of the court....and because of that they must be there to represent anyone with situations in court for matters over $5,000...so you need an attorney....and, in a SS case it's up to you and the judge.

Answer 4

Don't give up because they seldom grant it the first time. Just call your local SS office and ask them what to do and they can help you. All lawyers do is cost you part of your first check, which will be quite a bit since they pay from the day you applied once you are accepted. Calling SS is the best step to take and they will give you all the information and forms you need.

Answer 5

He takes your claim and sues the SS admin. He'll get doctors to testify on your behalf also, they will also take a part of the settlement.

Answer 6

human beings do get approved the first actual time. My chum did yet she has a unusual hand sickness that makes her hands settlement. i imagine that's who they deliver you to once you bypass for a clinical exam. They despatched my chum at hand professional and he wrote it up and the way it ought to influence her. notwithstanding, I actual have Mri's and nerve conduction assessments that they reviewed on the 60 day software. They despatched me to a resident that had pushed one hundred miles on a humid day to do incapacity checks. no one confirmed up yet me. He were there in view that 8 am and it changed into midday, did not favor to make certain any information. in basic terms had me raise my legs and hands. yet I knew i changed into going to be denied even as my caseworker referred to as me from yet another city and advised me they'd no clinical information from my neurologist. So i bypass to discover information rfile insist they were despatched. They despatched them back and that i referred to as 2 days later they nonetheless did not have them and he advised me I in simple terms had 2 days to get them in or i changed into going to be denied. So I had kept a duplicate and suggested i'll stress them to you (one hundred miles). He says no in basic terms in one day them. So I did. I call on the most suitable day to make certain in the adventure that they'd them, he suggested certain and hung up the phone. i'm getting my denial letter 2 days later and it changed into dated the day before he advised me to in one day the papers. I call the middle the position he's placed. not his direct huge variety and the lady who responded the phone says they don't see human beings in the workplaces and performance no thanks to signal for something and ought to't reason he ought to have suggested to attempt this. My caseworker changed into impolite from the get bypass. He ought to not communicate english all excellent or perhaps as he referred to as me he gave me the handle to in one day the stuff. I went to a legal professional the subsequent day and they suggested there changed into not something to do except bypass through the approach. I filed Oct 2013 and that's July of 2015 and don't have a courtroom date yet. i did not report for the federal incapacity because the legal professionals suggested I had to have below $3000 in the monetary corporation. Which on the time I had more beneficial. not now...

Answer 7

U DON'T NEED A LAWYER........

U CAN APPEAL THEIR DECISION UP 2,
3 TIMES,
UR SELF,

SAVE THE $$, UR GOING 2 GIVE THE LAWYER.......
4 UR SELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE ONLY THING THE LAWYER WILL DO,
IS REAPPLY 4U!!!!!!!!!
AGAIN U CAN DO IT UR SELF................
GOOD-LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

so while all of this process is going on, how are you surviving?