Monday, March 30, 2015

How Social Security Disability Lawyer Handle Cases

By Iva Cannon


The law views a socially disabled person as one who is unable to work because they have a medical condition that affects them either mentally or physically and the situation is expected to last for a period of one year or lead to death. To consider getting a benefit as a result of your disability, one should consider getting a social security disability lawyer to help them apply for the disability benefits successfully. The process is quite cumbersome as it may take two to three months before hearing of the petition.

The process starts with the client contacting a lawyer, the attorney conducts an initial interview with you to collect the primary fact of the case. These facts assist the lawyer in decision making of whether to take your case, the interview can be done face to face through a scheduled meeting or can be conducted through telephone means. The lawyer then reviews the information on hand to evaluate the chances of winning the case.

If the attorney agrees to take your case, you sign an agreement of medical privacy allowing your lawyer to access your medical records whenever necessary. Sometimes the social security administration may request medical test to be done so it is the attorney work to examine your medical documents and decide whether anymore testing are necessary.

He also chooses the doctors to work with during the case, the medical documents to present to the deciding judge who will be taking the case. The lawyer should be aware of the different benefits that are available.

The insurance benefit claimed by those who have worked long enough to reach at least 20credits, to reach these credit level one should earn more income to exceed the current credit limit, also there is the supplemental income benefits claimed by people who have not worked long enough to earn more income to exceed the prevailing credit limits.

Finally when the hearing dates approaches, a lawyer should enlighten particular client on how to tackle the frequently asked questions, these questions can be, when were you diagnosed with the symptoms, do you have an health insurance policy and do you have friends.

As the hearing dates gets nearer, the lawyer should go through the most frequently asked questions with a client, some of the questions are, whether the client understands the symptoms he is suffering from clearly, if a client has health insurance and how well can a client get with others.

The disabled person is allowed by social security administration to have a witness who can testify about his or her disability, but this witness testimony should be first heard by the attorney to determine if necessary to prove your case. Then your attorney comes up with a theory of your disability to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that your condition qualifies for disability listing. With reference to the city Durham North Carolina they have well known attorneys and the government has policies to protect the disabled




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