Explain to Social Security How Your Disability Affects Your Daily Activities
Your difficulties with daily personal activities are very helpful to Social Security’s disability determination.
How to Get Your Doctor to Help With Your Social Security Disability Case
Learn how to ask your doctor for help in a way that will support your claim.
How Social Security Considers Multiple Impairments When Making Disability Decisions
When considering whether you qualify for disability, Social Security needs to evaluate all your medical conditions together.
Getting Your Doctor's Opinion Into Your Social Security Disability File and Making it Count
Having a detailed report on your symptoms and limitations from your doctor can make or break your disability case.
Can You Get Disability Without Having Seen a Doctor?
Here’s how to get disability without a doctor who you've seen regularly for treatment.
Getting Social Security Disability Through a Medical-Vocational Allowance
Most people win Social Security or SSI disability benefits by showing they don't have the capacity to do any job.
How Social Security Uses Medical-Vocational Grid Rules to Decide Disability
If you are 50 years old or older when applying for Social Security disability, it may be easier for you to get approved for disability benefits than it is for a younger person.
Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability
Written by a former SSA medical consultant, Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability is the essential book for learning about the disability process, and can be helpful whether you hire or lawyer or not.
Nolo's book covers Medicare and Medicaid rules for persons with disabilities.