It has been a while since the Best Practices for Claimant's Representatives was published on the Social Security Administration's website.
If you are representing clients before the SSA, this list of best practices is full of useful reminders, and is worth revisiting every now and then. Take a look when you get a chance.
I often handle Social Security disability claims of those age 55 and over. Some of these clients contact me at the beginning of the process, to help with their application for disability benefits. I encourage this practice, since it can avoid a long wait for benefits and increase the chances of an award…
Recently, I went online and did a search for “disability lawyers”. As expected, the search produced hundreds of results. For someone looking for a disability lawyer, the options initially seem overwhelming. However, with a little more in-depth investigation one soon discovers that many of these web sites actually advertise for nationally based firms that handle…
Every other Friday I publish a selection of notable articles published recently in the disability blogs:
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The Social Security disability blog roundup is back from its holiday hiatus. Here are the links to recent notable posts from the disability blogs:
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Best wishes for a Happy New Year to our clients, our colleagues, and the many Social Security and medical professionals we work with every day.
Every now and then I see a decision that contains a sentence like this: "The evidence on record does not support a finding of total disability." I find the use of the term "total disability" in an ALJ's decision worrisome, because total disability is not necessary to prevail in a Social Security disability claim under…
Here are links to a few articles from the past 3 months that are worth reviewing, or reading for the first time if you missed them when originally published.
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Our offices will be closed on Friday for the Christmas holiday.
The 2009 Social Security statistics for disability allowances and denials at the various levels of review have been released.
The notable thing about the new 2009 statistics is how close they are to the 2008 statistics. On a percentage basis, the allowance/denial rates are almost identical.
