March Madness: Social Security disability roundup

By Gordon Gates on March 29, 2013

Each month I highlight articles of note regarding Social Security disability. This month brought several stories in the mainstream press regarding the Social Security disability program. Links to three of them are below:

Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America and Expanded Definition Of Disability Created Million Dollar Opportunity For Lawyers by Chana Joffe-Walt
Ehrlich is wrong about Obama and the Social Security disability program by Ethel Zelenske
WILL YOU HAVE TO TESTIFY AT A HEARING FOR YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY CLAIM? by Loyd Bourgeois
Using iPad in Social Security Disability Hearings by Kevin Morton
Overlooked Sources for Social Security Disability Evidence by Tomasz Stasiuk

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Gordon Gates specializes in Social Security disability law, and he handles claims at every level of the Social Security disability claim process. He assists clients…

Gordon Gates specializes in Social Security disability law, and he handles claims at every level of the Social Security disability claim process. He assists clients with initial applications for disability benefits, with appeals of denied claims, and with hearings by an administrative law judge.

Gordon has successfully appealed unfavorable administrative law judge decisions the Social Security Appeals Council and to U.S. District Court (District of Maine) to have those claims remanded for new hearings.

Gordon attended Maine Maritime Academy and Tulane University Law School. At Tulane, he served as Senior Articles Editor of the Tulane Law Review and graduated magna cum laude. He was admitted to practice law in Maine in 1991. Since 2005, he has concentrated his law practice on Social Security disability and SSI cases.

Gordon is the publisher of Social Security Disability Lawyer, a nationally-read legal blog. He presented at the Fall 2010 conference of National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (NOSSCR) on the topic of Writing Hearing Briefs for the ALJ.

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