Rejecting a claim for Social Security Disability or Supplemental Security Income may be financially life-altering. Fortunately, claimants have the right to timely appeal these decisions. If an Social Security disability application was denied, a claimant must make an...
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GAO criticizes SSA overpayments
Many Americans live with a disability and need financial support. The Social Security Administration Disability Insurance program is vital because it provides workers with disabilities with cash benefits. However, a U.S. General Accounting report issued in October...
Return-to-work incentive is part of SSDI
As discussed, the latest Congressional budget law made changes to Social Security Disability to strengthen the disability fund for approximately seven years and which encourages recipients to return to work. This return-to-work incentive along with other changes to...
What impacts would the budget deal have on SSD?
As you may have heard, a budget deal is currently working its way through Congress. The deal, if passed, would impact many government programs. This includes the Social Security Disability program. For one, it would forestall a funding shortfall which is currently...
Eight things you need to report to keep receiving benefits
Did you know that failing to report certain changes in your life can seriously affect your Social Security Disability benefits?In some cases, not informing the Social Security Administration of a change can result in you being paid too much — and in this case, you...
Do migraines qualify as a disability under SSDI?
As you may already know, in order for the Social Security Administration to consider your application for benefits, your condition must first meet the definition of a disability. According to SSA, a condition is considered a disability if it a.) will last at least a...
Overcoming ignorance about what disability should ‘look like’
Despite how far America has come in the past few decades, disability is still very misunderstood. And sadly, ignorance about what it means to be disabled often leads to insults, insensitivity and lack of empathy for those struggling to live as others do.Perhaps the...
Don’t fall for these disability myths
There are many myths out there about disability benefits. As a law firm that helps people secure Social Security Disability benefits, our clients ask about these myths from time to time, so we’d like to address a few of them today.Myth: It is not worth applying for...
Has 80 years clouded course for Social Security and disability?
Eighty years ago this month, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The implications for California and all other U.S. retirees, and eventually disabled individuals too, have been far reaching.Over the course of those decades a lot of...
What evidence does Social Security expect to approve benefits?
Private insurance companies tend to be pretty strict about what evidence they want and how they want it when it comes to making determinations about what claims they will pay and which they will not. It should surprise no one in Fresno or the rest of California that...