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Long Covid: Understanding the Impacts of Post-Covid Syndrome on Disability Claims

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about an unprecedented challenge to the world, and one of its most significant impacts is the emergence of Long...

Keeping a Symptom Diary or Journal During the Disability Claim Process

Having a diary or journal that describes the nature of your symptoms, disability, or injury and how it affects you daily is one very good...

Intellectual Disorders (ID)

Intellectual Disorders usually arise before the age of twenty-two and last for a lifetime. This disability interferes with normal speech and communication. Issues with movement...

Expedited Applications for Veterans with 100% Permanent and Total Disability

Veterans who have been evaluated by their primary care doctors at the Veteran's Administration (VA), and have been rated as 100% permanent and totally disabled...

Medical Evidence and Your Disability Evaluation

What are your symptoms? How severe are they? Are you in pain? Do you experience shortness of breath? Are you not able to walk due...

Trial Work Period

If you are deemed disabled and receive benefits every month and would like to test your ability to work again, you may try a “trial...

Can You Receive Your Disability Payments While Incarcerated for A Felony?

There is an interesting case out of Pennsylvania, involving the payment of disability benefits to a prisoner pre-conviction versus conviction. The story goes like this:The...

How Social Security Defines Blindness

Social Security has its own definition of blindness.You will be considered blind if your distance vision is less than or equal to 20/200, in the...

Continuing Disability Review

A Continuing Disability Review, is something the Social Security Administration conducts to determine if you still have a disabling condition. If they should decide that...

The Appeals Process – U.S. Federal District Court

So, you've gone through the whole Appeals process, except for the last step, U.S. Federal District Court. This is a civil court and there is...