What: Arthritis and Your Social Security Disability Benefits Claim Arthritis and other chronic joint diseases are incredibly painful. The American Pain Foundation has a unique, educational campaign called “Making Sense of Pain Relief” that will help provide you with information about arthritis or chronic joint symptoms. At Cavey and Barrett, it is not uncommon for […]

Did you know that almost three in ten of today’s 20 year olds will become disabled before reaching age 67? One in Seven of today’s 20 year olds will die prior to age 67; which is the full retirement age for people born in 1960 or later. Many of those who become disabled will become

Being unable to work and being found disabled are two different things. The Social Security Administration uses a grid system as apart of the Five Step Sequential Evaluation which is heavily weighted based on age. If you are under the age of 45 or 50 and you can’t do your past jobs or work full

What: Social Security Disability Term ” Medically Determinable ” In an article about Social Security disability, a great post was made about what is medically determinable in a Social Security Disability case. You need to know what this term means and what and how it can effect you in your Social Security Disability case. As taken

Did you know that Social Security Disability Insurance is a disability benefits insurance program provided by the Social Security Administration? This program offers money benefits to individuals who have worked twenty out of the last forty quarters so that they have become insured and eligible for disability payments if they become unable to work for

Over 2.5 million applications for Social Security Disability benefits are rejected by the Social Security Administration every year. Your initial application for disability insurance is reviewed at the state level and statistics show that over 90% of these claims are rejected at the initial level and at the Request for Reconsideration level. To increase your

The Social Security Administration provides work incentives that allow people to work and collect Social Security Disability benefits at the same time. This is called a trial work period and during that period you can keep what you earn and still collect benefits. However, you have to report your work activity to the Social Security

What: Do I really need an attorney to appeal a social security denial? No, but as Abraham Lincoln says, “a person who represents themselves has a fool for a client.” If your Social Security Disability claim has been denied and you are filing your Request for Reconsideration or Request for Hearing, Sharon Barrett, a Social

If you are not represented, keep a copy of everything that you send to the Social Security Administration.