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COVID-19 Disability Guide: How to Make Sure Your Doctor is Supportive for your Non-Covid Disability Benefits Application

COVID-19 Disability Guide: How to Make Sure Your Doctor is Supportive for your Disability Benefits Application
The Social Security Administration uses a List of Impairments from its Blue Book of Disability, As a matter of fact, if you meet the Work Credits , have enough prove to support your claim of being disabled and are unable to earn, you're considered as eligible to apply for Disability Benefits. However, the Coronavirus pandemic has made it a cumberso...
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Substantial Gainful Activity and Disability Income Limits for 2021

Substantial Gainful Activity and Disability Income Limits for 2021
In assessing whether you qualify non-medically, the Social Security Administration (SSA) will initially look to whether you are right now working. In the event that you are working with low income wages below the stated threshold and not procuring a high income, you won't consequently be denied disability benefits, however completing a considerable...
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Applying for SSDI as a Disabled Adult on your Parent's Earnings

Applying for SSDI as a Disabled Adult on your Parent's Earnings
Even though the SSA provides benefits to adult children if they are over the age of 18 to qualify, the SSA will consider you a disabled adult because you will be collecting SSDI based on your qualifying parent's Social Security's earnings. What does it mean to be Disabled? In order to be eligible for SSDI as a disabled adult child, the disabled chi...
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Social Security Changes for COLA in 2021

The Social Security Administration announced that it will make an increase of 1.3% in Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income, as a result of a Cost-of-living-adjustment. This COLA increase will take effect immediately for all 71 million Americans receiving monthly benefits paychecks. This COLA adjustment is designed to help ben...
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Social Security Disability Benefits for Children as Dependents

Social Security Disability Benefits for Children
Disability benefits for disabled children and for children of disabled parents are one of the few benefits covered by the Social Security Disability Insurance program by the Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration reported in 2017 of having distributed $2.6 billion per month in disability benefits paychecks to 4.6 million...
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FICA taxes for Social Security Disability in 2021

FICA taxes for Social Security Disability in 2021
FICA is a US federal payroll tax. It stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act and is ultimately deducted from the paycheck for every person who has signed up for the Social Security program from the Social Security Administration. FICA is not the virtual piggy bank that every payer will have access to when they retire. Instead, it is an e...
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What wins Social Security Disability Benefits?

What wins Social Security Disability Benefits?
Let's be honest: The name of your disability impairment does not mean an ultimate win for your SSDI case. There are various factors that can win or lose disability cases. Each year approximately 64 million people apply for disability – out of those only 30% of the DI claimants actually win the disability benefits. This means that only about one thi...
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Work Credits for Social Security Disability in 2020

Work Credits for Social Security Disability in 2020
Disability has immediate and lasting consequences for a DI claimant. Not only a limiting disability/impairment can happen to anyone – especially with an advancing age – it can greatly affect a claimant's economic situation. The claimant's gross income earnings, household standards, total family income and purchases of essentials such as grocery and...
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What is the Ticket-to-Work Program for SSDI?

What is the Ticket-to-Work Program for SSDI?
The ticket-to-work (TTW) is a voluntary based program designed to get individuals able to return to work on a trial basis. The program is for people aged 18 to 64 with a disability who are on monthly social security checks and want to go back to work while also not losing their disability benefits if it does not work. A DI claimant can utilize the ...
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Will getting Laid-off affect my Eligibility for Disability Benefits?

Will getting Laid-off affect my Eligibility for Disability Benefits?
The Social Security Administration's policy requires early intervention and adequate support to be provided to workers with disabilities to enable adequate worker's retention objectives. This way the Disability Insurance (DI) claimants can be supported to perform some type of work under substantial gainful activity and earn a handsome livelihood on...
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Am I eligible for Disability Benefits if I was laid off work due to Covid-19?

Am I eligible for Disability Benefits if I was laid off work due to Covid-19?
As the Coronavirus pandemic had the US citizens confined to their homes, the disease had impacted nearly every industry. Also, since many businesses started losing out of cash flow, many of the employers laid-off workers due to inability to meet the worker's expenses in terms of salary and health benefits. However, there are some good and bad news ...
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What makes Social Security Administration terminate your Disability Benefits?

What makes Social Security Administration terminate your Disability Benefits?
As difficult and as time consuming winning a Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) can be, it is not as difficult for the SSA to terminate your benefit's program in case you no longer meet the eligibility criteria. There are various factors such as changes in your income (if you are earning an income above the threshold levels of substantial ...
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Extended Period of Eligibility (EPE) for Trial Work Period (TWP)

Extended Period of Eligibility (EPE) for Trial Work Period (TWP)
After a claimant's five year Trial Work Period has ended, the timeline for the Extended Period of Eligibility start. What is Extended Period of Eligibility? The extended period of eligibility is a 36 month period following the five year trial work period, during which a claimant can file for 'expedited reinstatement' of SSDI benefits. This means th...
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Rules for the Trial Work Period for SSDI

Rules for the Trial Work Period for SSDI
The Social Security Administration allows you to try to return to work while on disability if your monthly earnings remain below the income threshold for the average monthly SSDI income. This period of being able to work while on disability insurance, can last for 9 months within a 5 years' period and is known as Trial Work Period. What is Trial Wo...
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How to find the Right Disability Attorney for your Social Security Benefits?

How to find the Right Disability Attorney for your Social Security Benefits?
Disability Attorneys are experienced professionals with knowledge of the various types of medical evidences required for each disability condition in order to win SSDI benefits. A disability lawyer can help develop medical evidences, doctor's statements and a proper theory of your disability. What does having a disability attorney mean? Having the ...
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Social Security Disability Benefits for Anxiety Disorder

Social Security Disability Benefits for Anxiety Disorder
In order to be considered for disability insurance benefits due to an anxiety disorders you need to have medical proofs that you are diagnosed with anxiety disorders that are severe enough to prevent you from working to perform substantial gainful activity (SGA). What is anxiety disorder? Anxiety disorder refers to specific kind of psychiatric diso...
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Disability Benefits for Kidney Disease, Transplant & Dialysis

Disability Benefits for Kidney Disease, Transplant & Dialysis
If you meet all non-medical eligibility requirements for Social Security Disability, then a kidney transplant will make you eligible for 12 months of disability benefits if you are approved. After that period, the Social Security Administration will evaluate your symptoms for 'ongoing disability for residual symptoms'. What is considered adequate k...
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How Residual Functional Limitations may get you Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)

How Residual Functional Limitations may get you Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
If your condition does not meet the requirements of the SSA's Blue Book of Impairments, you may still be awarded Social Security Disability Insurance based upon your functional limitations. The Social Security Disability Insurance is a federal program run by the Social Security Administration that offers monthly payments to people with severe condi...
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What are Functional Limitations for your Social Security Disability?

What are Functional Limitations for your Social Security Disability?
When applying for disability benefits, your functional limitations are the most important factor in considering your application. Your disability examiner (DE) will look at your medical condition as the topmost evidence required to evaluate your disability application's process. The Social Security Administration (SSA) will primarily look for sympt...
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Social Security Disability Benefits for Congestive Heart Failure

Social Security Disability Benefits for Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive Heart Failure is the inability of the heart to meet the needs of organs and tissues for nutrients and oxygen. Congestive Heart Failure is a potentially hazardous condition which can prove lethal if the heart is unable to pump adequate blood to all the organs of the body to meet body's needs. Many factors lead to congestion in the arterie...
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