Q&A: Social Security Disability Today (Special Edition) – What is a Virtual Screening Unit?
What is a Virtual Screening unit? 1) In your opinion, would this be a better outcome for a case as opposed to it being heard in the flesh in front of a Administrative Law Judge? 2) What isa Virtual Screening Unit? 3) What are the pros and cons? 4) Even at this hybrid level, even [...]
How Should You Prepare Before You Apply for Social Security Disability Benefits?
Despite all of the information available on the web or in print how to apply for Social Security Disability benefits , most people don’t have a clue as to what to expect from the process or what they should anticipate before going through the process. Most people expect the process to take a while, but,beyond [...]
Nationwide Class Certified re SSA Policy denying benefits for Violations of Probation/Parole
Greetings, everyone. As you know, on April 10, 2011, I gave an update on the “Clark v. Astrue” case out of New York. http://youtu.be/GxVZZisZLVo The case involves a challenge to SSA’s policy of suspending or denying Social Security and SSI benefits when the individual has an outstanding warrant for an alleged violation of probation or [...]
Will Social Security Be There When I Need It?
I was at the post office last week when a gentleman asked me that very question. He knew I practiced Social Security Disability so he wanted my opinion. My response to him was fairly quick. “If you are over the age of 55, you should be fine. It’s the rest of us who need to [...]
Q&A: Social Security Disability Today – April 24, 2011
Please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvcRlIaVXjo 1) what if a representative payee signed you up against your own knowledge with a false diagnosis? and then throwing the recipient on the streets after they get the checks? DO they investigate the recipient or the representative payee? or both? 2) If a Person, is trying to get Disability, cause they [...]
