There are hundreds of thousands of people with a disability and who are entitled to extra assistance from the government. In order to obtain that financial assistance, you have to go through a disability hearing where the Social Security Administration (SSA) will determine the extent of your disability and the appropriate benefits to grant you. Disability hearings can be very stressful and difficult experiences and can leave many people feeling very overwhelmed. There is a five-step process that the SSA goes through to decide the status of your disability, whether they deem you fit to work and what benefits, if any, you are entitled to. These steps can be very confusing, so to help anyone who is seeking assistance, we will explain what the process of disability hearings looks like.
The SSA Checks Your Current Employment Status
The first thing that the SSA does is simply check your current employment status. If you are currently working and you are earning more than the SSA limit ($1,260 a month in 2020), your application will receive an automatic no. Even if you earned that amount of money one day a month and spent the rest of the month on a dialysis machine, you would still be found to be not disabled because that amount of money per month pre taxes is considered substantial gainful cb daily activity. It is very unusual however, for applicants to be rejected based on their current employment status because people in work rarely apply for disability benefits.
Your Disability is Assessed
Next, the SSA will assess your disability to see whether it stops you from doing basic tasks or activities which are required at work. Similarly to the evaluation in step one, very few people ever fail at this stage. In most cases, if you have a simple report of your BAC evaluation from a chiropractor, let alone full-blown hospital surgery records for your shoulder surgery or back surgery, you are usually going to sail through this step. Despite this, you should never be complacent about any stage of the disability hearing process. In the last couple of years, especially, rejections have been increasing based on inconsistent and relatively arbitrary things. Make sure all of your paperwork is in order, and you will not give the SSA any reason to reject your application.
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