By Sarah Mallas Wayman
Are you aware that a person who qualifies for Social Security Disability may be awarded up to $2,642.00 per month in steady income, plus a lump sum payment of benefits owed from back-pay, plus health insurance and annual cost of living increases?
None of these benefits are automatic. You have to file a proper application which on its face may seem easy enough. But, after filing, the real work begins. Each applicant must show an entitlement and that will almost always be conditioned on medical, psychological, vocational and other forms of evidence. For most lay people, this is daunting. For hose impaired with disability or lacking in funds, this can be a nightmare.
For these reasons alone, competent legal assistance is desirable.
The facts I obtain to proceed with a Social Security Disability application includes information about doctors, healthcare professionals, hospitals and clinics who treated you, plus the names, addresses, phone numbers, patient ID numbers, and dates of all examinations and treatments, along with the names and dates of medical tests you have had and who sent you for them.
And there is more: The names of medications (prescriptions and non-prescriptions), reasons for medication and who prescribed them along with information about other medical records that may be available from vocational rehabilitation services, workers compensation, public welfare or other places.
Your job history is important. The date your medical condition began to affect your ability to work The type of jobs that you had in the 15 years before you became unable to work because of your medical condition with the dates you worked at those jobs, if available along with the type of duties you did on the longest job you had
To be fully prepared we need to know all about your education and training with the highest grade in school completed or any special job training, trade school or vocational school you finished.
When all this has been colleted and discussed, then the application process should begin. Obviously, this is complicated but necessary. I can help and will discuss this with you initially at no cost, by telephone or in person.
Sincerely,
Sarah Mallas Wayman
Attorney
7600 Hunters Woods Drive
Atlanta, GA 30350-5632
(770) 804-8484
smw
law@bellsouth.net
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