The Social Security Administration uses the five step sequential evaluation in determining your eligibility for Social Security Disability benefits.
At step four they are going to ask whether you can return to the lightest job you have held in the last 15 years. As part of the Social Security Disability application process, you are going to be asked to identify which was your easiest job for you to do now considering your medical problems. They are going to ask you the following questions:

1. In an average work day, how many hours were spent sitting standing or walking?
2. What is the greatest weight that you had to lift or carry on that job?
3. How many times per day would you lift or carry that much?
4. What object weighed that much?
5. What was the average weight that you had to lift or carry on this job?
6. How many times per day would you lift or carry that much?
7. What objects weighed this much?

As you can see completing the Social Security Disability application can be time consuming, but it is important that you fill it out correctly. You employed like a Port Richey Plumber ? For a no obligation consultation on your rights to Social Security Disability benefits, contact Sharon Barrett.

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In a shocking editorial by Peter Orzak, the former White House director of OMD, Orzak has suggested that people who are disabled simply apply for Social Security Disability or long term disability benefits because they are unable to work. He insinuates that once they receive benefits, they lose all their desire to work and enjoy being disabled.

This is nothing but dribble! One of the solutions that he proposes is the use of private disability insurance companies. Obviously, Orzak has no understanding for the private ERISA disability world where often than not, private and ERISA disability insurance companies will deny benefits to those who are legally entitled to benefits. Trying to shift the blame to private ERISA based long term disability carriers is a bad idea. If you really want to make the long and short term disability process work, get rid of the presumption clauses and policies which presume that any decision by your insurance company is right. If we are going to cut or limit the safety for Social Security Disability and long term disability benefits, let’s give every American the right to a jury trial to determine whether they are entitled to benefits.

If you want to play fair Mr. Orzak, understand the Social Security Disability and long term disability claims process and make sure that there is a fair and level playing field for all Americans who are unable to work as a result of disability.

Long term disability attorney Nancy Cavey has written the book Robbed of Your Peace of Mind which exposes all of the reasons why short and long term disability claims process is manifestly unfair and robs employees, who have paid their disability premiums of their right to peace of mind when they become disabled.

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The Social Security Act protects Title II and SSI benefits from garnishment and claim predators under 42 US Code, Section 407 (a) and 1383 (d)(1).

Unfortunately, recently, debt collectors have been pretending to freeze accounts containing these protected federal benefits.

If your account has been frozen, you made have limited access to your funds while you contest a garnishment order in court. If your Social Security Disability benefits have been frozen because of debt collectors, contact a qualified Social Security Disability attorney for advice on how to protect your valuable Social Security Disability benefits.

If you would like more information about your rights regarding Social Security Disability Benefits, you can order our FREE book,"Your Rights to Social Security Disability Benefits" by submitting the form in the sidebar. We will send it out immediately along with other important information.

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These include:

1. Obtaining a medical sworn statement from your treating doctor that identifies the physical or psychiatric limitations you have as a result of your medical condition.

2. If you have the Social Security Disability applicant has attempted to go back to work and failed or is working in a sheltered employment, the Social Security Administration is looking for evidence that addresses these issues. If the Social Security Disability applicant has return to work in some capacity, those wages have to be explained to the Administrative Law Judge.

3. If you become disabled as a result of a workers’ compensation case, the Administrative Law Judge is going to want to know more about the workers’ compensation claim.

4. If your case has been settled, it is important that your Social Security Disability attorney have a copy of the workers’ compensation settlement as the Administrative Law Judge is going to want to see a copy of the settlement documents.

5. Submitting precise pre-hearing briefs. At Cavey and Barrett, we submit a Memorandum of Law prior to every Social Security Disability hearing. This helps the Administrative Law Judge prepare for a hearing and, in some cases, can actually assist them in awarding benefits without the need for a hearing. This is call an “on the record request”.

If you would like more information about your rights regarding Social Security Disability Benefits, you can order our FREE book,"Your Rights to Social Security Disability Benefits" by submitting the form in the sidebar. We will send it out immediately along with other important information.

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An earnings cut off is just another way of saying substantial gainful activity. Why is that important? The definition of disability asks, in part, whether or not you have a mental or physical impairment that:

1. Prevents substantial gainful work activity for 12 months.

2. Is expected to prevent substantial work activity for 12 months.

3. Is expected to result in your death.

Substantial gainful activity is a monthly earnings limit.

If you earn more than that, you are presumed to be able to engage in substantial gainful activity and ineligible for Social Security Disability benefits.

However, there sometimes arises a real issue about whether your work activity is really worth what you are being paid. In some cases, Social Security Disability applicants can be working for family members, friends or others whose payment for their full wage, despite the fact that they are having to modify their work or hours. Social Security will consider that when determining whether or not any work activity constitutes substantial gainful activity.

It is important that you consult an experienced Social Security Disability attorney to get there opinion as to whether or not the work that you may be doing prior to applying for Social Security Disability benefits or even after you apply for Social Security Disability benefits constitutes substantial gainful activity.

If you would like more information about your rights regarding Social Security Disability Benefits, you can order our FREE book,"Your Rights to Social Security Disability Benefits" by submitting the form in the sidebar. We will send it out immediately along with other important information.

For more information about Social Security Disability Benefits, visit our law firm web site at CaveyLaw.com. If you would like to speak with one of our Social Security Disability Benefits attorneys about your case, feel free to call us anytime at (727) 897-9117 or simply submit our contact form and we will get back to you quickly.

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