Applying?

A lot of people think by simply explaining their situation to Social Security, someone will understand and start giving them benefit checks. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works.

When you apply for Social Security Disability in Texas and anywhere in the country, you’ve got A LOT of leg work:

• Fill out pages of forms.
• Provide detailed medical records (from exams, tests, procedures and any medical treatment you can think of.)
• Detail your training and work background.
• Show you’ve paid enough into the system to be eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or that your household finances qualify you for Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
• Provide witness statements from people you know about how your medical conditions have interfered with your life and ability to function in a job.

You might ask, can you apply for disability online, and doesn’t that make it easier?

You can file your application for disability benefits online. And it may be handy, but it’s still not easy.

You still have to collect all the details of your work history, all the medical evidence, and all the independent sources to back up what you say about your health limitations and more.

What’s very easy is making mistakes that will sink your disability claim.

The system is set up to be hard. They’re trying to drive away people who cheat the system. They come up with all kinds of reasons to deny an overwhelming majority of people who apply for benefits.

Get reinforcements—skilled West Texas Social Security Disability lawyer Baynetta Jordan and her team.

YOU PAY NO FEE FOR A DISABILTY LAWYER UNTIL YOU WIN BENEFITS.

You can be turned down if your doctor doesn’t understand the definition of disability, or if a Social Security employee doesn’t gather all of your medical evidence.

If you aren’t following your doctor’s medical treatment plan, if you have missing or wrong information on your application or if you don’t submit enough medical evidence, you could get turned down.

You can also get turned down if your appeal isn’t handled correctly.

Social Security has thousands of rules, regulations and procedures governing its disability program.

When you’re applying for Social Security Disability in Texas, first you need to understand which of two programs fits your situation:

• Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is for people with substantial work records who paid into the system with Social Security taxes but aren’t retirement age and must stop working because of major health impairments.
• Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is also for people who can’t work due to bad health, but it covers people who don’t have long or recent work histories. And to get SSI, you must meet financial requirements of limited income and resources.

In your free initial evaluation, your Texas Social Security Disability lawyer can help you sort out which program is right for you.

Then your disability attorney, who works with this system every day and knows how to apply for SSD benefits, does all of this for you:

• Talks to your doctors to get the medical evidence you need
• Asks you questions, including ones you didn’t think of, to get the right information on your background
• Checks your application forms to make sure everything is correctly filled out
• Watches out for Social Security deadlines you must meet and keeps your disability claim on track
• Keeps you up to date on your disability case and answers the questions you’ll likely have
• Provides the support you need in a system that otherwise might push you aside
• Helps you appeal a denial, including taking your case to a disability judge

Applying for Social Security Disability benefits is stressful and lonely.

Baynetta M. Jordan, P.C., makes sure you’ve got support.

Work with us to get economic assistance for a more secure future.