Applying For Social Security Disability

When applying for Social Security disability, you have to provide proof of your eligibility in three aspects: past, present and future. You have to have worked for at least five years before you became disabled and paid into the Social Security disability benefits fund. The amount of your eventual award for Social Security disability benefits will depend on your past earnings, so you need to provide proof of your employment history and your income.

In the present, you have to prove that you are unable to work at your usual job and unable to perform any other job because of illness, injury or a medical condition. This is the most difficult part of applying for Social Security disability, since it requires a great deal of documentation. Getting Social Security disability requires you to provide all medical records and test reports, plus the dates of treatment, from any doctor, health facility, therapist or case worker you have dealt with.

The "future" element means that you have to prove your condition will keep you from work for at least one year. Unfortunately, because the process of applying for Social Security disability, getting a decision, and dealing with hearings and appeals takes so long, this "future" element is often already in the past. Can you afford to go without income for a year or more?

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