If your application for Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits has been denied, you are not alone. In fact, the vast majority of first-time applications get rejected. The truth is that it happens all the time: people who need and deserve benefits have their...
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Can a work injury turn into a Social Security Disability claim?
Most workplace injuries that happen in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are relatively minor. If necessary, the victim might file a workers' compensation claim, miss work for a while, then come back when they have recovered. Then there are the devastating work-related...
Appealing a Social Security Disability Denial
Social Security Disability, or SSD, is meant to protect and support people who have become disabled and cannot work. Sometimes, however, requests are denied. When this happens, you must appeal to a higher authority. In this article, we will discuss which people...
Can I Collect SSDI if I Have Diabetes?
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is for people who have become disabled for any reason. If you have disabilities related to diabetes, you may be eligible for SSDI. What Is Diabetes? Diabetes, Type I and Type II, is a condition created by a failing pancreas....
How Does the “Marriage Penalty” Affect SSDI?
What Is a Marriage Penalty? When filing your taxes, you must include your spouse’s income information. This is true whether you file jointly or separately. Including this extra money can result in your being put into a different tax bracket. Perhaps you make a small...
SSDI & Ticket to Work Program At-a-Glance
Do You Receive Disability Benefits & Want a Job? If you receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), you may be eligible for Social Security’s Ticket to Work Program (TWP). This free and voluntary program allows disability beneficiaries age 18 thorough 64...
COVID-19 & SSDI Benefits
Since March, the COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed life as we know it. States are taking measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus by issuing various measures that include shutting down businesses and operations and implementing curfews. For those who are...
Dementia & SSDI Benefits
Dementia is a group of health conditions that results in the impairment of more than one brain function, such as the loss of memory, problem-solving, language, social skills, and thinking abilities. Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common conditions, as well as...
What Are Social Security Survivors’ Benefits?
Most people avoid thinking about their own mortality. We thinking about living, having experiences, and building memories with the ones we love. Unfortunately, we don’t live forever and we have to plan for death, which is inevitable. When a worker dies, it’s not only...
Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances
When we’re young, full of energy and healthy, most of us don’t think that one day we’ll become disabled and unable to work, but the truth is that it happens to a lot of people. Life is full of the unexpected and things like car accidents, workplace accidents, exposure...