If a claimant is 50 there is a good chance the during your hearing the judge and vocational expert will talk about transferrable skills. Skills are knowledge about a job that is gained by performing the job. A skill requires the exercise of judgment that goes beyond...
Month: February 2018
Social Security’s Compassionate Allowance List
Understandably, the biggest criticism claimants have of the Social Security Administration is the lengthy waits for a decision. It's not unusual for claimants in some states to wait more than two years to get a hearing before an administrative law judge and then...
Non-mechanical Application of Social Security’s Grid Rules
Many claimants with a pending disability application understand that it gets easier to be approved for benefits after age 50.While the exact specifications of these "grid rules" can get rather technical, they basically work like this: let's say a 50-year-old woman...
Earned Income Tax Credit
The Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable tax credit for low to moderate income working people. This Tax Credit incentivizes work while providing additional support to low income workers, particularly workers with children. People working part-time often receive...
Injuries from military service: Mental and physical conditions
There are many kinds of war-related injuries, both physical and mental. It's important for veterans returning from the field to have access to all the help they need to get through the new difficulties in their lives. They've served and protected, and now it's the...
Post-traumatic epilepsy changes lives
After you got into an accident, you noticed changes in yourself. You'd forget lengths of time completely. You'd forget words and have trouble speaking. You knew something was wrong, so you had tests performed. You finally got a diagnosis: post-traumatic epilepsy...
What a Government Shutdown Means for Social Security Disability
At midnight on Saturday, January 20, the federal government began procedures to rollback services for many agencies, the effect of a partial government shutdown.And by Monday, January 22, the shutdown was already over with little interruption in services. There is,...
Substitution of Party if a Claimant Dies
Depending on where you're located, it can take more than two years from the date of filing a disability application to get a hearing and decision from an administrative law judge. Unfortunately, many claimants suffer from illnesses so severe that they simply cannot...
If I am a Legal Permanent Resident, Can I Get Disability Benefits?
The answer depends on what kind of benefit you are applying for. There are two disability benefits. Disability Insured Benefits (DIB, sometimes called Social Security Disability SSD or SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The main different is that DIB...
Injured At Work?
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