Psoriatic arthritis can be a debilitating and disabling disease. Often marked by a severe rash on the skin known as plaque psoriasis, the rash can start out as small red bumps and escalate to larger scales that leave the skin vulnerable to being scratched off, resulting in bleeding. These rashes can be severe enough that…
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What Type of Questions Will Be Asked at Your Disability Interview?
When faced with a disabling condition, a person can easily and quickly feel financial pressure. The inability to maintain gainful employment while bills pile up can feel like entering a bottomless pit. An employer may offer short-term or long-term disability benefits, but this can often not be enough. Thankfully, the Social Security Administration offers disability…
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What Type of Documentation Do You Need to Provide When Applying for Social Security Disability?
The disability application process can feel both endless and overwhelming. Disability benefits, however, can be critically important to those feeling the force of financial impact that can come with being disabled or having a family member with a disability. The Social Security disability programs can help provide much-needed financial support each month to help ensure…
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What Will the Administrative Law Judge Ask at My Hearing?
The disability application process can be frustrating. In fact, the majority of people who apply for disability benefits get initially denied. The good news is, however, that many find more success when they appeal this initial denial. There are several different levels in the appeals process and each level gives an applicant another chance at…
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What Type of Questions Will Be Asked at Your Disability Interview?
When faced with a disabling condition, a person can easily and quickly feel financial pressure. The inability to maintain gainful employment while bills pile up can feel like entering a bottomless pit. An employer may offer short-term or long-term disability benefits, but this can often not be enough. Thankfully, the Social Security Administration offers disability…
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What are the Different Stages in the Disability Appeals Process?
If you have applied for disability benefits, you may have been initially denied. Do not despair. In fact, the majority of those who apply for disability benefits are denied at first. Many have more success appealing this denial. There are, in fact, several stages in the disability appeals process. This means you may have multiple…
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How Does Social Security Define Skilled and Unskilled Work?
There are several stages of analysis involved in determining whether your application for Social Security disability benefits will be approved. The Social Security Administration (SSA) will need to determine whether your condition has met the disability listing. It will also need to determine, in light of the disabling condition, you would be able to carry…
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Is Autism a Qualifying Condition for Social Security Benefits?
There is an extensive and varied list of conditions that can qualify a person for Social Security disability benefits. Just because a person may have a condition listed and recognized by the Social Security Administration, however, does not mean that they will qualify for benefits. The condition must have certain qualifying characteristics and the right…
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What Is the Social Security Administration Blue Book?
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has programs that provide financial support to individuals suffering from disabilities that inhibit them from engaging in gainful employment. These programs are SSDI and SSI. In order to access benefits under these programs, an applicant must be able to demonstrate that they suffer from a qualifying condition. For this, the…
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What Are the Special Rules for Workers Over 50 Applying for Disability Benefits?
Workers under the age of 65 who are unable to work due to certain qualifying disabilities may apply for Social Security disability benefits. Generally speaking, eligibility to receive disability benefits will depend on a workers’ inability to continue in the same line of work combined with the inability to adapt or adjust to a new…
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