Social Security Disability Law: News and Facts

Your U.S. congressional reps don't have any impact on the decision as far as approval or denial. You should be able to goggle the contact information for your congressional representatives. Information about  confessional inquiry: A congressional inquiry is a “status check” of your disability claim conducted by your local U.S. senator or representative on your behalf. To initiate a congressional inquiry, which the congressperson can refuse to undertake, you will need to contact your local U.S. senator or representative’s office to request that he or she look into where your disability claim stands. In your request, you should give a general overview of the circumstances surrounding your claim. You may include factors such as how long it has been since you began the application process; how long you have been waiting for an appeal hearing to be scheduled; any medical, emotional, or financial distress the application process has caused; or the number of family members you are current...

  There are three mistakes, in particular, that you should be careful to avoid during your own disability hearing: Straying from the Topic.  KISS- Keep it simple stupid. Most ALJs will have read all your medical records prior to the hearing. The ALJ will know your case and have notes. The purpose of the disability hearing is for you to explain to the Administrative Law Judge (the ALJ) the physical and mental effects of your impairments. If you try to just gie your life story or talk about other impairments that the ALJ did not ask about  you’ll be wasting valuable time that you could be using to help the ALJ understand the only thing the judge needs to know about you disability case. So don’t talk about things how you really want to work, how hard it is to find a job, or other such complaints. It wastes the judge’s time and means you’re not talking about the one thing that matters at that moment – why you’re eligible for disability benefits. The hearing is limited in time...