Social Security disability cases often interface with workers’ compensation and short term or long term disability cases. I recently received a question from a lady named Helena, who asks the following: I have been working in the medical field for over 13 years and more. I am on short term disability. Can I apply for [...]
I recently received an email question from a blog reader about the eligibility of a convicted felon for Social Security disability benefits. There is a simple answer here – you may not collect disability benefits during the time you are incarcerated. Social Security ruling 83-28 addresses this situation directly. Assuming that Social Security will accept [...]
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In my last post, I described Social Security’s new “paperless file system” that utilizes scanned documents rather than paper documents. You may be wondering how written records get into the system. Social Security uses a bar code system that works as follows: if you have evidence or documentation that you want to submit to Social [...]
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Jonathan Ginsberg with Social Security CD Over the past year, Social Security has made meaningful strides in reducing hard copy paperwork and improving the efficiency of the disability adjudication process. One of the most noticeable changes has been the gradual elimination of cardboard and paper files, which are being replaced by compact disks. Social Security [...]
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A common question that I see has to do with part time work. As I have written previously, I am not a big fan of part time work, as you will see from my answer to this question that I recieved by email: I have had fibromyalgia for many years, an autoimmune disease requiring weekly [...]
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Earlier this week, the New York Times published an enlightening article about the practice of Long Term Disability (LTD) carriers requiring LTD beneficiaries to apply for Social Security disability. This practice is commonplace and the reason for it is simple economics. Most employer paid LTD policies provide that (1) any SSDI benefits received will offset [...]
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I have a question about being able to work. I recently started having headaches every day and have been seeing a doctor and having tests done. There is no way I can work under these circumstances. What should I do? –Richard Jonathan Ginsberg responds: Richard, I am sorry to hear about your situation. Here are [...]
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In 1972 at age16 I sustained head injuries from a motorboat propeller resulting in lobectomy to my right frontal and parietal lobes. I was left with epilepsy, which has been controlled with medication from ’81 to 2004 when I had 2 seizures after I was let go from my last place of employment. The main [...]
Ii just got custody of my nephew from cps and he has been in residential treatment centers in fort worth, we had him tested thru the school system and discovered that he is emotional disturbed and has adhd and boplar disorder2 and also has obsessive defiant disorder we also learned that we had to put [...]
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