According to an article from Wikedpedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis hepatitis is an injury to the liver characterized by presence inflammatory cells in the liver which can progress to scarring of the liver. It is acute when it lasts less than 6 months and chronic when it persists longer. A group of viruses known as the hepatitis viruses cause most cases of liver damage. Hepatitis can also be due to toxins (notably alcohol), other infections or from autoimmue process. You can become symtomatic when the disease impairs liver functions that include, among other things, screening of harmful substances, regulation of blood composition, and production of bile to help digestion.

The Social Security Administration requires that you meet very stringent medical requirements to meet a Listing 5.05. More often than not, we will ask your physician to complete a Residual Functional Capacity form Chronic Active Hepatitis that will document your physical findings. Explain your diagnostic studies including the results of your liver biopsy and the results of your blood-work.

Click here to view the listing:

http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/5.00-Digestive-Adult.htm#5_05

Just as important are your physical capabilities and the problems that you have functioning every day. These can include fatigue, fuzziness, and  problems concentrating at the side effects of your medication. You can win a claim for Social Security disability benefits for chronic active hepatitis with the help of your treating physician and documentation of the problems you have functioning.

Contact Florida social security disability attorneys, Cavey and Barrett, for more information about a social security disability application for chronic active hepatitis.

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US Representative Castor made headlines in the St. Petersburg Times recently by proposing legislation in the United States Congress that would require the Social Security Administration to hold a hearing within 75 days on any application for Social Security Disability. Nancy Cavey and Sharon Barrrett, St. Petersburg-based Social Security disability attorneys, support such legislation and urge you to contact your United States Representative in support of this legislation.

A Times Editorial

Cut short disability’s cruel waiting game

In print: Friday, July 18, 2008

The government insurance that is owed to people who are no longer capable of working is no less urgent than that paid to a family left homeless after a flood. But the Social Security Administration has turned disability insurance into a waiting game so cruel as to sometimes claim lives before paying claims.

The bill that U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, is introducing in Congress would finally put the government on a clock. It would have no more than 75 days to schedule a disability claims hearing and, then, no more than 15 days to rule.

As Castor demonstrated with some of the people she gathered for a news conference on Monday, the delays and rejections are often indefensible. Shelly Burke, who suffers from diabetic neuropathy, has been unable to work since 2000. She was twice the denied the benefits she deserved, and won them only with the help of an attorney and only after eight years of delays.

“I don’t know what I would have done without my mother,” Burke said. “I’ve been one of the lucky ones.”

In fairness to the Social Security agency, its staff has suffered cutbacks at the same time it has seen a dramatic increase in caseload. It also faces far too many attempts to defraud the government, including recently disclosed attempts by private insurers to force their injured claimants to file, wrongfully, for Social Security disability insurance.

That said, the agency still suffers some of the institutional distrust that once led the Regional Appeals Office to report that bosses were telling caseworkers to “deny, deny, deny.” The agency has rebounded from those ugly purges during the Reagan administration, but one reason for the staggering backlog of cases today is that far too many claims are being wrongly denied by the original caseworker. In turn, those denials are appealed, and two-thirds of them are reversed.

The assumption that everyone is trying to cheat the system has cost those who aren’t. The average wait for a person filing a disability claim to get a hearing before an administrative judge in Tampa is now 685 days, and some cases last for years. Even Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue has acknowledged that some disabled people have died while waiting. Yet Astrue has still done little to address the problem. Imagine the Federal Emergency Management Agency trying to prevent flood insurance payments for nearly two years after a storm.

More administrative judges and caseworkers will cost money that Congress has to be willing to provide, but Castor is shining the light in the right place. These delays are inhumane.

Unfortunately, Tampa Bay Social Security disability Attorney Nancy Cavey routinely sees delays of over two years to secure Social Security disability hearing. This legislation will help every Social Security Disability applicant.

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You can file a claim for Social Security disability benefits as a result of a liver transplant under Listing 5.09. To win your claim you will have to show that you would be considered under great disability for 12 months after the date of your surgery.

Your residual impairment will be evaluated. If your claim is granted, you can expect reevaluated by Social Security within 12 to 24 months.

Listing 5.09 can be viewed here

http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/5.00-Digestive-Adult.htm#5_09

If you have  any questions about a social security disability application for a liver transplant, please contact social security disability attorneys, Cavey and Barrett at caveylaw.com.

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You might have a Social Security Disability Claim for chronic gastrointestinal or digestive problems.

Listing 5.0 Digestive systems covers such medical conditions as:

1. Recurrent upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage from undetermined causes;

2. Stricture, stenosis or structure of the esophagus;

3. Peptic ulcer disease;

4. Chronic liver disease including chronic active hepatitis;

5. Chronic colitis;

6. Regional enteritis;

7. Weight loss due to any persisting gastrointestinal disorder.

Click here for Listing 5.0

http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/5.00-Digestive-Adult.htm#5_09

The Social Security administration has strict requirements for each of these conditions and requires certain findings on examination together with medical studies to confirm your diagnosis.

The Social Security administration recognizes that digestive system disorders will result in the marked impairment because of the interference with your nutrition, the number of times these problems can recur, and the many complications. These complications must be expected to last for a continuous period of at least 12 months.

Cavey and Barrett, your Florida based social security attorneys, can help you with your  social security application.

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Ichthyosis is a family of rare genetic skin disorders. There are two types. Non-congenital develops within the first few months after birth, and congenital ichthyosis vulgaris is present at birth.

If you suffer from ichthyosis you can file a claim for Social Security disability benefits under Listing 8.02. Click here to view the listing

Nancy Cavey, a Florida-based Social Security disability Attorney, can help you with your Social Security disability application.

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