VETERANS DISABILITY OF HUNTSVILLE

There are a few changes to Social Security in 2017. The cost of living increase will be 0.3% for persons receiving Social Security checks.  This will amount to about $5 per month for the average beneficiary. The amount of earnings needed to count as one quarter of coverage will increase to $1,300. This primarily affects non-retired, non-disabled persons who are still working. Are you disabled and need to receive a Social Security disability check?  Have you applied for disability but been denied?  You should consider using professional to represent you and try again.  You may be entitled to benefits, even if you've been denied recently.  It will cost you nothing to try again.  You never pay your representative unless you win and collect past due benefits.  (Representative's fees must be paid out of past due benefits). For help, call (256) 799-0297. Visit Our Website Here  

The Forsythe Firm i n Huntsville has experience and proficiency in helping disabled veterans get approved for Social Security disability--even after they have been denied. "Most approvals come after at least one denial," says Charles Forsythe, senior partner and disability specialist at the Forsythe Firm. The initial decision on a disability claim is are made by the state of Alabama, not by Social Security.  A state agency known as the Disability Determination Service, or DDS for short , decides if a claimant technically meets the medical req uiremen t for disability.   Forsythe explains, "The DDS denies about 7 out of 10 disability claims, often through error.  It is up to the claimant to challenge the denial with an appeal and get matters corrected."  There is a 60 -day deadline to file this appeal. "Nobody expects Social Security to get every decision right," Forsythe adds.  "Just the opposite.  We expect them to get many of them wrong...

When individuals apply for disability, Social Security will often refer them to one of their contract doctors for a consultative examination.  More often than not, the doctor will not find any disabling impairment.  As a result, Social Security will deny benefits. However, the opinions of these doctors are often easily refuted in court and claims that were denied on the basis of their "examinations" may be overruled and approved. Here is what you should know about these superficial consultative exams by Social Security: 1)  The exams are usually brief, superficial and insufficient to determine if you are able to work. 2)  The law requires that more weight be given to the opinions of your own doctor than those of the consultative doctor. 3) A one-time examination is often legally insufficient to form a conclusion about disability. 4)  Social Security's doctor is seldom a specialist, and even if he is, not a specialist in your disabling impai...