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All Just just about ClaimsWhat you shouldn’t believe just about SSD
by:
Lala Balattan
The Societal Safety and Supplemental Safety Financial gain
handicap programs are the largest of some Federal programs that provide assistance to folk with disabilities. American citizens have move to be aware that with the Societal Safety programs for handicap benefits and SSI, safety is still there for them, even as as they are physically restricted, burdened with an ill health and unable to activity anymore.
However, the Societal Safety is not committed to production
massive awareness and information regarding such programs as the immense public are continually in mental object
of its procedures, policies and workings. Because of this, some misconceptions and false expectations have been harbored by many an who were misinformed of the societal security’s policy. Alas! Many an are greatly enlightened by the time they have move through handling their own applications for handicap / SSI claims.
A foremost example of a idea is that “the Societal Safety denies everyone the 1st time they apply for disability”. Irresponsibility is ne'er
a know-how
in the Societal Security. Handicap applications are filed at the Societal Safety Office and are subject for evaluation. Completed handicap applications are sent to a state agency called Handicap Determination Services (DDS). At DDS, they are allotted to handicap specialists better-known as Examiners. Examiners are the individuals who do decisions on Societal Safety cases (at the initial and Reconsideration Levels).
Though not all are denied, it is frustrating to note that after months of waiting, 70% of the population that applied for handicap claims are denied!
Another misguided information is that the “Social Safety denies you a certain number of times before you are authorized
and can obtain handicap benefits” should not be believed. During the long wait for the process
of handicap / SSI claims applications, many an some factors affect the approval and/or denial of applications. Each case are some among others, thus, reasons for approval and/or denial, whether how many an times are not always the same.
Meanwhile, a statement from your dr. supporting your case cannot mechanically
get you authorized
for benefits. Why, of course! No one who ever passed a handicap claim application at the SSA with or without the supporting statements of a dr. have ever been mechanically
approved. Your physician’s medical report on your handicap wish have to go through scrutiny
of the DDS and eventually, if continually denied, into the judgment of the Body
Law Judge to weigh the facts given
if you are actually entitled to the benefits.
What others are claiming that “certain conditions, disabilities, or medical health problems can get you mechanically
authorized
for benefits”, is not even as close to the truth. Spell certain conditions, disabilities or medical health problems do get the applicant involved authorized
for benefits, the SSA procedures entails that no claimant’s application be mechanically
denied and/or approved.
Saying that the better resolution upon denial of an application is to file another brand new application in order to plead your case and appeal, is another misguided idea. Spell it is right to appeal for your application, it is not a nice resolution to begin all over again. The only way to continue you claim is to request for reconsideration, and with it, the necessary additions that may powerfully
keep your claim.
Another story
states that you can't be awarded societal safety handicap benefits if you have ever used drugs or alcohol. If that is so, then the state is denying handicap benefits to the entire population since at one point in their lives, they for sure may have used drugs or alcohol! This is such an utter mix-up of the law stating that handicap benefit shall be denied to those whose impairment was caused by addiction to drugs and alcohol.
There are yet else misguided ideas and information that still burrowed in the minds of citizens, especially those who are aiming to apply for handicap claims. Unless a serious information driving campaign be done in order to answer all questions and to banish all myths in the minds of the people, much and much would-be still cling to farfetched ideas and false hopes in the Societal Safety Administration’s system
Just just about the author:
Lala B. is a 26 year-old Communication Arts graduate, with a major in Journalism. Right after graduating last 1999, she worked for one year as a clerk then became a Research, Publication and Documentation Program Director at a non-government organization, which focuses on the rights, interests and welfare of workers for just about four years.
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