Need to Know if Financial Relief Is Available to You?
You know for sure that health problems are hindering your life.
How do you know if your case qualifies for financial support through benefits? Could you get the monthly checks and eligibility for Medicare that comes with SSD?
These are the basic qualifications for Social Security Disability:
- You’ve worked and paid enough in Social Security taxes to be covered by Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
- You have severe physical or mental health conditions.
- You cannot work because of your health struggles.
- There’s no chance you’ll be able to recover and work again in under a year.
Like we said, those qualifications are basic. But satisfying them means meeting thousands of smaller requirements for Social Security Disability—requirements that make you prove forcefully that you should get benefits.
And if you don’t have the work history to qualify for SSDI, but you do have medical limitations that prevent you from working, and you have limited economic means, you couldapply for another program: Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Talk to a disability lawyer. Disability lawyers make this process easier on you by handlingthe legwork, potentially improving your chances of winning benefits, and never charging a fee until you win.
The Texas disability attorneys atare some of the most experienced SSD lawyers you can find.
We’ve helped thousands of people. We have attorneys board certified in disability law, which is more thanmost lawyers can say.
From Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, Morgan Weisbrod serves all Texans.
If you’re wondering whether you’re eligible for benefits—wondering if you should put in the effort to apply for Social Security Disability—let’s have a conversation.
Don’t rule it out, becausethese benefits can provide a foundation for a more secure, healthy and full life.
What Medical Conditions Qualify for Social Security Disability?
One of the first questions people ask our Texas disability attorneys is whether their medical conditions qualify for Social Security Disability.
It’s understandable to wonder the same thing. Would they really grant you money and health care coverage for your illness? You may have heard, after all, that people get denied all the time.
The reality is that any health condition (or combination of ailments) severe enough to block you from working can qualify for SSD benefits—including common medical conditions like diabetes or conditions people often misunderstand like mental health disorders.
It’s true that some impairments are more complicated than others to prove to Social Security.
The Morgan Weisbrod disability attorneys have helped people with all these conditions and many more:
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Back pain from injuries or ruptured disks
- Bipolar disorder
- Blindness and loss of vision
- Cancer
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chronic pain
- Crohn’s disease
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Head injuries
- Heart disease
- Heart failure
- Kidney failure
- Liver disease
- Lupus
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Obesity
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Seizures
- Spine disorders or injuries
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Social Security has a list of impairments (sometimes called the “Blue Book”) that spells out how to qualify for disability benefits with many diseases and disorders.
But your condition doesn’t have to be on that list. If it’s not, you can show Social Security how your health—no matter the diagnosis—is limiting your life. You’ll provide a measure of what they call your “residual functional capacity,” or RFC.
It gets technical. But your disability lawyer can guide you through this. It’s always free to contact us, tell us about your health challenges, and get our honest opinion about how you could win benefits and rest easier.
Could You Get Social Security Disability? 5 Questions to Ask.
You can answer these five questions to get an idea if you might qualify for Social Security Disability:
No. 1: Are you still working? You can’t be working more than a minimal amount and still be approved for disability benefits. Any signs that you can work could get you denied.
No. 2: Do you have serious health problems? Of course, you know how you feel. But you’ll need to send in medical records and reports to show Social Security that you’re dealing with something serious.
No. 3: Is your diagnosis on the official listing of impairments? If so, that gives you a clearer path to benefits. If not, like we said before, there are other ways, which your disability lawyer knows how to navigate.
No. 4: Could you do any of your old jobs? Social Security will look at several years of your training and work experience to see if there’s a job you could return to despite your health problems.
No. 5: Could you do some other job? And it’s not enough to be unable to hold any past jobs. You’ll also have to demonstrate that you can’t switch to a new, less demanding job because your health problems will get in the way of that, too.
A successful disability claim requires documentation like medical test results, doctor’s exam reports, treatment plans, prescription records, medical imaging, educational history, past job descriptions, statements from friends and family and more.
You can see how the basic qualifications for disability benefits—that you can’t work for a year because of health problems—don’t begin to reflect everything that goes into your application for benefits.
Get in touch with the Morgan Weisbrod Social Security Disability lawyers to support you on the path to disability benefits and the stability and peace they bring.
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