1. Your doctor recommended that you file for disability. You should get your doctor to provide a written Medical Source Statement supporting your claim.
2. You have a long, steady work history. The longer you have worked the more credible your claim is.
3. Your past work required standing, walking and a great deal of lifting. In other words, it require rather heavy physical exertion, not sitting behind a desk all day.
4. You have tried to keep working but failed because symptoms were just too severe.
5. You have worked at least 5 out of the last 10-year period. This is the usual requirement to be covered (insured) by Social Security disability insurance.
6. There are consistent and recent medical documents to support your disability. These should usually include MRI, CT scan, X-ray or other objective diagnostic tests.
7. You are at least 50 years old when you claim to become disabled. Younger claimants do get benefits sometimes; however, claimants age 50 or over have a much better chance due to favorable grid rules.
Keep in mind that even solid claims get denied--and this happens more often than it should. It is usually necessary to appeal a denied claim twice and take it before an administrative law judge for a hearing to get paid. In fact, over two-thirds of all claims filed in Alabama wind up before a judge.
My firm specializes in representing claimants before the Social Security Administration at hearings. We will evaluate your case for free--and we will never charge you a fee until after you get paid, including your back pay. When your case is favorably decided, you keep 100 percent of your monthly checks.
If we don't win, you don't pay.
__________The Forsythe Firm
7027 Old Madison Pike - Suite 108
Huntsville, AL 35806
CALL (256) 799-0297
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