If you are filing for disability benefits then you should be aware of the following. Either you are applying for collective security Disability or the Supplemental security earnings Program, the description of disability under the collective security management is the same. To be regarded as disabled an personel must be unable to achieve any type of performance because of a reasoning or corporal handicap that has lasted or will last at least 12 months continuously or such condition will end in the man dying.
If you earned more than 0 in a month during the last year, collective security management (Ssa) will consider that you were gainfully employed and will likely thought about you as not being disabled.
The Ssa considers your corporal or reasoning condition not to be a disability if it isn't severe sufficient to interfere with your basic job performance.
They have a list of conditions at the collective security management that is used when man is filing for disability benefits. If your condition is proven to be as severe as those listed with Ssa, you can be thought about as disabled. If your condition is the same as one that is listed this doesn't necessarily mean that your condition is severe sufficient to be counted as disabled.
It is also up to collective security to decide Either your condition is severe enouth to keep you from performing your old jobs. If so, you will not be eligible to draw collective security benefits.
Affidavits from a old supervisor, co-worker, friends, and family members who can conduce to showing the limitations you've encountered at work and at home because of the severity of your condition will be helpful.
Make the affidavit short. It should not be over tow pages long so as not to bombard the collective security management with even more paperwork to read. It should be typed on quarterly sized typing paper. It should be signed in front of a notary collective and signed and stamped by the notary public. This proves the authenticity of the affidavit.
If providing an affidavit when filing for disability benefits, make sure it is persuasive and concludes the man who is manufacture the statements occupation, title, and address. How they are acquainted with the claimant, how long and in what capacity they know the claimant. The affidavit should include how often there is palpate in the middle of the claimant and man giving the statement, Either phone palpate or in person, and should discuss what level of work the claimant was able to achieve prior to illness.
The claimant who is filing for disability benefits should also have a statement of definite limitations, treatments, unsuccessful treatments, and a statement as to what extent they are unable to achieve activities of daily living (Adl). If supervisors or co-workers are giving statements they should state why the man is small in working any occupation, and the man giving the statement should be willing to speak with a judge concerning their statement.
If you are filing for disability benefits you could have a long road ahead of you, don/t stop fighting if you believe you are truly disabled and are being denied benefits. If you petition an executive law judge will make a decision on your case.
Filing For Disability Benefits - Know Your rights