When you are preparing to apply for Social Security Disability benefits, gathering the medical records to support your claim is an important first step. You want the records to provide comprehensive information about your physical or mental impairment, showing that you cannot work for a year or longer. Records for a physical impairment You will…
The Social Security Administration has a little-known opening for benefits often described as the “worn out worker” rule. Along with the ability to meet other requirements, you may qualify if you have a work history of 35 years or more performing arduous physical labor. Arduous and unskilled work “Arduous work” means physical effort that…
If there’s such a thing as a minor mental health disorder then schizophrenia is not one of them. This condition is included in publications such as the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Listing of Impairments largely because it’s a chronic and serious mental disorder. Individuals who suffer from schizophrenia often appear to others as if…
A Georgia woman who had long received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for her apparent debilitating depression and anxiety agreed to plea guilty to Social Security fraud this week. Court filings in her case highlight how the woman had long told doctors that her mental health concerns were so crippling that she was barely able…
Mental conditions can be categorized in a number of different ways, but, for the sake of seeking benefits, it is important to know that the Social Security Administration puts them into 11 general categories. These help to give structure to the process, and they also categorize other types of ailments. For mental conditions, the…