Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits 11th ed. [Pehme köide]

"This comprehensive book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows the reader how to prove a disability, and explains how one's age, education, and work experience affect his or her chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability. The reader will learn how to: find the disability criteria for a medical condition, prove the severity of a disability, appeal if benefits are denied, work part-time while keeping benefits, prepare for a Continuing Disability Review, and more. This book also contains filled-in samples of all the forms needed, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications"--

Qualify for Social Security disability benefits, quickly and easily

This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows you how to prove a disability, and explains how your age, education, and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability.

Learn how to:

• find the disability criteria for your medical condition
• prove the severity of your disability
• appeal if you’re denied benefits
• work part time while keeping your benefits
• prepare for a Continuing Disability Review,
• and more.

Plus, this book is packed with filled-in samples of all the forms you’ll need, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications.

This new edition includes:

• a new discussion of getting disability for Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS)
• explanations of Social Security’s updated medical listings for back pain, musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, Raynaud’s phenomenon, polymyositis, and dermatomyositis.

With Downloadable Disability ListingsFind out if your medical condition qualifies under one of Social Security’s 200 disability listings (details inside).

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 other medical conditions.

Learn how to match the medical details of your disability to Social Security regulations to make sure you have the right evidence to qualify for the benefits you're due when you apply.

This guide is written by a former Chief Medical Consultant for the Social Security Administration whose expert deciphering of the medical portions of SSA regulations will help you understand how you can get benefits. If you’ve been denied benefits already, this book will tell you how to find out why and what steps to take to prove that you should get benefits on appeal.

This edition is completely updated with the latest rules and information (including changes to the musculoskeletal listings) plus updated figures for 2022.

A complete guide to Social Security disability benefits—everything you need to know, from qualifying and applying for your benefits to appealing the denial of a claim. Written by a former Social Security doctor, this book provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at how the Social Security Administration decides who is disabled and deserves benefits.