Always leery when people do not identify themselves, the Social Security Administration’s (“SSA”) decision to no longer identity the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) assigned to hear your Disability case is troubling. The Herndon disability law firm ABRAMS LANDAU received several Hearing Notices this week. None of them had the name of the Federal Judge assigned…
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Injured, disabled, rejected by the Federal Government – these conditions do not make for a happy person. An unhappy client is not a good thing. So, when a woman disabled by spinal stenosis after a terrible car crash came to the Landau Law Shop to help with her Social Security Disability claim, we had our…
Continue readingYesterday we discussed “amending the onset date” in a Social Security disability case. Today we will examine last week’s case where our client had been denied benefits several times, first in Georgia and then in District of Columbia. While this middle aged woman had several serious medical conditions, she had been denied Federal disability benefits…
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Just as in dating, sometimes the date you start with is not the one you end up with ! Unrepresented Social Security Disability claimants often pick a “date of onset” for their disability on their original applications that lead to denial after denial by the Federal Government. While a disabled workers may have stopped working…
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The Social Security Administration has released the new numbers for 2012. The Federal Government’s disability program has increased the amounts necessary for work determinations, the payments for Supplemental Income and the maximum taxable earnings. Earnings of less than $12,120 per year may not be viewed as “substantial” such that a wage earner would be deemed…
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