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Win your social security disability case : advance your SSD claim and receive the benefits you deserve / Benjamin H. Berkley. - 1st ed. - Naperville, Ill. : Sphinx Pub., 2008. - xxii, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Sphinx legal .
Includes index. "A plain English guide to advancing your claim and receiving your benefits"--Cover.
Meet the Social Security Administration -- Defining disability -- Who is eligible to file? -- The sequential evaluation of disability -- Step 3 of the sequential evaluation : meeting or equaling the listings -- Step 4 of the sequential evaluation : can you do your past relevant work? -- Step 5 of the sequential evaluation : can you do any other work? -- When the grids do not apply -- Filing the initial claim -- Consultative examinations -- Developing your medical evidence : your doctor's role in obtaining benefits -- If you are denied : the first appeal -- If you are denied again : the second appeal -- Understanding the hearing letter and preparing for the hearing -- Requesting an on-the-record decision -- The hearing -- The waiting game : how do you survive? -- Favorable decisions -- Unfavorable decisions and your right to appeal -- Anatomy of a social security disability case -- Turning a losing decision into a victory -- Obtaining first-time benefits for children and adults with childhood disabilities -- Do I need an attorney?
9781572486416 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1572486414 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Disability insurance--Law and legislation--United States.
Disability evaluation--Law and legislation--United States.
Social security--Law and legislation--United States.
344.7302 Ber 9
Win your social security disability case : advance your SSD claim and receive the benefits you deserve / Benjamin H. Berkley. - 1st ed. - Naperville, Ill. : Sphinx Pub., 2008. - xxii, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Sphinx legal .
Includes index. "A plain English guide to advancing your claim and receiving your benefits"--Cover.
Meet the Social Security Administration -- Defining disability -- Who is eligible to file? -- The sequential evaluation of disability -- Step 3 of the sequential evaluation : meeting or equaling the listings -- Step 4 of the sequential evaluation : can you do your past relevant work? -- Step 5 of the sequential evaluation : can you do any other work? -- When the grids do not apply -- Filing the initial claim -- Consultative examinations -- Developing your medical evidence : your doctor's role in obtaining benefits -- If you are denied : the first appeal -- If you are denied again : the second appeal -- Understanding the hearing letter and preparing for the hearing -- Requesting an on-the-record decision -- The hearing -- The waiting game : how do you survive? -- Favorable decisions -- Unfavorable decisions and your right to appeal -- Anatomy of a social security disability case -- Turning a losing decision into a victory -- Obtaining first-time benefits for children and adults with childhood disabilities -- Do I need an attorney?
9781572486416 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1572486414 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Disability insurance--Law and legislation--United States.
Disability evaluation--Law and legislation--United States.
Social security--Law and legislation--United States.
344.7302 Ber 9