I previously discussed Medical Impairments and Social Security Disability. Sometimes claimants forget that Social Security only pays disability benefits if you can prove that it is your medical impairment(s) that prevent you from working. SSA does not pay for bad attitudes (unless it is a diagnosed personality disorder that is rather severe), the factory closing, [...]
Entries from June 30th, 2008
Medical Impairment, Ability to Work, & Social Security Disability
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Attorney Representation, General, Hearings, Medical Impairment, Medical Treatment, Rules
Tags: Hearings·Medical Impairment·Medical Treatment·Rules·Social Security·Social Security Disability·SSA
When Should I Hire An Attorney For My Disability Case?
June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Attorney Representation, Delay, General, Hearings, Medical Impairment, Medical Treatment, Rules, SSA
I recently was the moderator of a panel discussion at the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum Social Security disability seminar “Persuasion at Social Security Hearings: Beyond the Mechanics at ODAR Hearings”. During another part of the seminar, an attorney was asked when he would begin representing clients in their Social Security Claim. He responded that [...]
Tags: Attorney Representation·Heariings·hire a lawyer·hire a lawywer·hire an attorney·medcial treatment·Rules·Social Security Disability·SSA
Medical Impairment and Social Security Disability
June 11th, 2008 · No Comments · General, Medical Impairment, Medical Treatment, SSA
Social Security only pays benefits if you have a medical impairment that prevents you from working. The claimant has the burden of proof -that is a “lawyer way” of saying that you have to prove you have a medical impairment and you have to prove that the medical impairment is the reason you can not [...]
Tags: Burden of Proof·Disability·Medical Impairment·Social Security·Social Security Disability·SSA
Social Security receives A+ on Computer Security
June 5th, 2008 · No Comments · General, SSA
Ranking Member Tom Davis, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the Eighth Report Card on Computer Security at Federal Agencies.
Tags: SSA
Do You Know the Rules of Social Security?
June 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Rules
In January of 1968, in the second season of Star Trek, Captain James T. Kirk invites the mobster Jojo Krako to play a card game of Fizzbin. Krako, who plays a lot of card games, accepts even though he does not know the rules. Kirk deals the cards. Kirk and Spock then begin to turn [...]
Tags: Captain James T Kirk·Card Game·Card Games·Claimant·Claimants·Disability Claim·Disability Determination·Disability Determination Bureau·Doctors·Face Cards·Gambler·James T Kirk·King Queen·Lot·Mobster·Play Game·Rules·Second Season·Social Security·Social Security Disability·SSA·Star Trek·Star Trek Captain