Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability - Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
David Morton III
Publisher: NOLO
Summary
AUDIENCE: People with disabilities who want to apply for or appeal the denial of Social Security Disability (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Families of persons with disabilities. Lawyers who don't practice Social Security disability regularly. REASONS TO BUY THIS NEW EDITION: Each year almost three million Americans apply for disability benefits through the Social Security Administration. 70% of these applicants are turned down and must appeal to get benefits. This book was written by a former chief medical consultant for Social Security who decided thousands of benefit claims. The author translates Social Security’s 200+ medical listings into plain-English so that readers can figure out what they need to prove their disability. This latest edition contains new benefit amounts and income limits for 2019 as well as important changes to Social Security’s medical listings on respiratory, neurological, and mental illnesses, with discussions of how applicants can get benefits for these and other conditions. The new edition will cover any changes to the SSDI and SSI programs made in 2017. The White House budget for 2018 proposal includes new return-to-work programs, a reduction of retroactive SSDI benefits from 12 months to 6 months, the reinstatement of the reconsideration stage (the first stage of appeal) in all states, a reduction in benefits for families with more than one SSI recipient, an elimination of workers' comp reserve offsets in all states, and a bar against simultaneously collecting unemployment benefits and disability payments.