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    How to Get Another Chance at Life-Changing Financial Help

    You filled out the forms. You sent in the doctors’ reports. You need Social Security Disability (SSD)

    benefits because you can’t work and money’s running out. But then they denied you. What can you do?

    You can appeal the decision and still win benefits to restore peace and hope in your life.

    In fact, most people are denied. It’s become an expected part of the process. Filing a Social Security Disability benefits appeal is often how people win.

    Here’s what you need to know:

    • YOU HAVE 60 DAYS TO FILE YOUR APPEAL.
    • First, you’ll send information to address why they denied you, and you’ll ask Social Security to reconsider.
    • If you’re not approved, you’ll ask for a hearing with a disability judge.
    • If you’re still not approved, you’ll ask Social Security’s Appeals Council to review the judge’s decision.
    • If needed, you’ll take your case to federal court.

    If you didn’t work with a lawyer when you first applied for disability benefits, you’ll definitely want a lawyer for your Social Security Disability appeal.

    Appealing a disability denial is much more complicated, more technical, and more legalistic than applying for disability. You may testify before a judge. Witnesses may testify about you, and you can cross-examine them.

    If you’re in Texas, get the Social Security Disability lawyers at Morgan Weisbrod on your case as soon as possible.

    Many of our disability attorneys are board certified in disability law, which means they’ve gone to extra training and lengths to be able to skillfully represent you when you’ve been denied benefits. Morgan Weisbrod has helped thousands of Texans with SSD.

    Our teams in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston can help you no matter where you are in Texas. Government studies have found that people who have a disability lawyer at their hearing are almost three times more likely to be approved.

    Let’s give your disability application another chance.There’s no attorney fee until you win benefits.

    First Off, Why Were You Denied Social Security Disability?

    To figure out what you’ll need to start your disability appeal, look at the denial letter they sent. Social Security may say why they denied you, or at least you could get some idea from their letter.

    These are some common reasons why you might have been denied Social Security Disability:

    • You’re working too much. You must be unable to work to get benefits.
    • Social Security isn’t convinced your medical conditions are serious or long-lasting enough to qualify for benefits.
    • You didn’t complete all the disability application forms correctly.
    • You didn’t send enough medical records and evidence to confirm your illness.
    • Your records show you didn’t follow your doctor’s instructions. Social Security wants to see you making every effort to manage your health.
    • You have conflicting information. This can make Social Security think you’re not being truthful about something.

    You also could have small mistakes in your SSD application that sunk your claim.

    Or you could have missed a technical detail. Social Security has highly specific rules for symptoms you must document and medical test results and other evidence you must submit for different impairments.

    Often when you appeal your disability denial, you can fix weaknesses in your initial application and get a better chance of winning.

    Few people get approved after the first step of appealing—asking Social Security for a reconsideration—but more get approved after they get a chance to talk to a disability judge.

    Have the Mogan Weisbrod disability lawyers examine your application materials and Social Security’s response to see how you could strengthen your case for financial relief.We’ll conduct a review for free.

    Appealing Disability with a Lawyer

    This is some of what your lawyer will do to help you appeal a disability benefits denial:

    • Study why you were denied
    • Find mistakes in your disability application
    • Find mistakes that Social Security made
    • Help you fill out the forms you need to appeal
    • Gather fresh medical evidence
    • Gather statements from friends and family
    • Build legal arguments for why you should get benefits
    • Prepare you to testify before an administrative law judge
    • Stand up for you during your disability hearing
    • Question experts who testify about your health or employment history
    • Take your disability appeal to higher levels, if that’s what it takes

    You can feel much more confident in this process when you know someone highly capable—a Social Security Disability lawyer at Morgan Weisbrod—is supporting your case.

    If Social Security denied disability benefits for you—and you know your health is bad and you can’t work—talk to us.

    With the right steps, you may still be able to win benefits and enjoy a measure of stability again.

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