Nolos Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting and Keeping You

Qualify for Social Security disability benefits, quickly and easily

This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows you how to prove a disability, and explains how your age, education, and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability.

Learn how to:

• find the disability criteria for your medical condition
• prove the severity of your disability
• appeal if you’re denied benefits
• work part time while keeping your benefits
• prepare for a Continuing Disability Review
• and more.
  

Plus, this book is packed with filled-in samples of all the forms you’ll need, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications.

This edition covers recent major changes, including:

• updated disability listings for over 65 medical conditions
• new rules concerning hearings and evidence, and
• changes in how Social Security considers evidence from treating doctors and other medical providers.

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions.

Learn how to match the medical details of your disability to Social Security regulations to make sure you have the right evidence to qualify for the benefits you're due when you apply. This guide is written by a former Chief Medical Consultant for the Social Security Administration whose expert deciphering of the medical portions of SSA regulations will help you understand how you can get benefits. If you’ve been denied benefits already, this book will tell you how to find out why and what steps to take to prove that you should get benefits on appeal.

This edition is completely updated with the latest rules and information plus updated figures for 2018 and many updated medical listings.