You have a condition or illness that prevents you from earning a full-time income and you’ve been told by friends, family and maybe even a doctor or caseworker, that you should apply for Social Security Disability benefits (SSDI and/or SSI). However, you’ve heard that it can be an arduous process and that it’s not easy … Continue reading
Since the COVID-19 pandemic remains a threat to our clients and staff, in-person meetings continue to be on hold. Roose & Ressler continues to conduct our work by telephone, e-mail, mail, and by videoconferencing. We are maintaining sanitized space, and require face coverings when in-person contacts are needed. Even though some staff are working in … Continue reading
The Washington Examiner recently published an article with the headline, “Hurrah, There are fewer disabled and fewer cheats.” It offered an explanation for the sustained drop in applicants for Social Security disability and SSI benefits and a decline in the total number of people receiving disability benefits (www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/business/economy/social-security-applications.html). According to the author, this welcome news … Continue reading
By Jon Ressler, Attorney, Roose & Ressler I wrote last December about the Social Security disability backlog, highlighting the fact that the average wait for a hearing had grown to over 600 days and that a primary driver of the increasing backlog was insufficient funding. Another recent article at investmentnews.com/article/201803… describes the impact of insufficient funding on other … Continue reading
By Jon Ressler, Attorney, Roose & Ressler For well over 20 years, Social Security acknowledged that your treating doctor has unique insight in assessing your medically-caused functional limitations. Not anymore. If you filed a Social Security disability application since March 27, 2017, the voice of your treating doctor is now just one among many. Social … Continue reading
People who apply for Social Security disability have severely disabling conditions, which, unfortunately, do not automatically qualify them for benefits under the Social Security Disability rules. Social Security Administration lists a number of impairments that automatically qualify an applicant for disability benefits. Most of these require very specific medical or laboratory findings. If your medical … Continue reading
What happens in the hearing room? Most judges commence Social Security disability hearings by recounting the “case history” of the disability claim and reciting the issues to be decided. Although judges often recite what a claimant needs to prove in order to prove the case, they rarely give a well-defined and simple explanation. Rather, they … Continue reading
The Social Security Administration has specific requirements for finding that a claimant disabled. For advice on whether you may be considered disabled, call your Ohio Social Security disability attorney to discuss your claim. To be found disabled, a claimant must have a medically determinable impairment. A medically determinable impairment is a physical or mental impairment … Continue reading
You hear a lot of talk about this. But the reasons are logical and not mysterious. It is certainly not because people don’t want to work any more. The baby-boomers have reached the age where disability is more likely. This is just a bulge in the population that was expected. More women have earned enough … Continue reading
When our Toledo Social Security attorney considers a case for appeal to federal court, there are several factors that the lawyer will assess. Here is a short list that he or she may consider. Presence of Disability Before a Toledo Social Security attorney files a case in federal court, he or she will begin an … Continue reading