Posted on February 12, 2010.
Can a girl of 19 years, winning a disability cases for Social Security without a lawyer? I try to go on SS disability and I do not have money to get a lawyer. Do you think it will even be worth my time to try again without one?
advocates for people with disabilities get 25%, no more, whatever the solution is when you get it. You will be paid from the date you first applied in a single payment, and they come out of it.
I used to be a disability claims examiner for the administration of social security and I approved cases for individuals in each age group. Age is not much of a factor that many people might think.
Yes, age does have some people who apply for disability benefits. The system is set up so that people who are fifty and older are considered a little more, and individuals who are fifty-five and over are considered even more than that. The reasoning behind this is that older people have more difficulty learning new job skills and / or have professional skills that are not as accurate, not as marketable and, therefore, they will have difficulty the transition to new types of employment, if their medical disability it is impossible for them to continue their most recent work.
And, yes, applications for young children seem to be more difficult to approve. From my observations, what seems to be because many children are claims filed on the basis of the conditions or improve over time, or where medical records are rare (in other words, many Parents file applications for disability of children until it is clear that they really are, in fact, people with disabilities).
However, having said all this, the truth is that age is not a major source of concern for social security disability and most SSI disability claims (both types of disability claims are evaluated in exactly the same way, in terms of evaluation of medical records).
What is important is: do your medical records indicate that you have the following? -
1. Severe disabilities.
2. A severe impairment is serious enough to prevent you from working and earning a substantial income and employment (this could be at a job you have done in the past or some form of "other work") for a period of at least one full year. Note: If you have not already been unemployed for a year because of your status, you can always ask the examiner and disability (or an administrative law judge if the case has progressed to a level hearing) may take the decision whether or not your health will effectively prevent you from working for a period of one year or more.
Clearly, whether or not you approved for disability depends entirely on what your medical records have to say about your condition and how it limits your ability to engage in work. Age in itself is a relatively minor factor in the determination process.
Now consider the other part of your question, which was to be a lawyer.
1. Nationally, on average, about 30 percent of all cases that are filed at the initial application is approved. Thus, despite the fact that it also means a rate of 70 per cent of the denial, it does dispel the myth that almost everyone has refused disability. Most people do not refuse. But nearly 1 in 3 people will be approved.
2. I can tell you for a fact, based on years of work as a disability examiner for the Social Security Administration that the vast majority of people who have approved for disability at initial application did not lawyer. Why is this the case? Because, generally, you do not need a lawyer at this point. And even if you are a lawyer at this process level, there is not much to do anyway.
3. If you refused disability on your initial application, and.
