Amber Holkem, left, a paralegal at Clarkson Pennington Law, helps people in Alabama with their Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) claims.
How Social Security Disability Benefits Can Change Your Life
With Social Security Disability benefits, you receive:
- Monthly checks to help you stay afloat financially
- Medicare health coverage
Both can make a big difference—letting you take care of your basic needs and focus on your own well-being.
The size of your disability payments are calculated in part using your past earnings history. It’s not a cushy amount, but it could be enough to keep food on the table and the lights on.
Normally you can’t get Medicare health coverage until you reach retirement age—that is, unless you qualify for disability benefits.
To get Medicare, you have to wait 24 months from the time Social Security decided you first met the requirements for disability benefits.
But it can take a year or more to be approved in the first place, and that time counts toward your Medicare wait time, so by the time your disability claim clears, your wait for Medicare will be shorter.
Disability benefits mean less stress, more time for things in life that you care about, and a chance to hold on to a bit of normalcy after health problems disrupt your life.
Wondering whether you have a good case for benefits? And what can you do to make ends meet while you wait? Get some answers from a Clarkson Social Security Disability lawyer. It’s a free conversation.
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What Goes Into a Social Security Disability Benefits Case?
People often think that others are always cheating the Social Security Disability system. The truth is, that hardly ever really happens.
One reason is that it’s so hard to get benefits. You’ve got hoops to jump through, hurdles to jump over, you name it.
You can’t just say you need help and sign up. An SSDI application has many parts:
- Showing that you’re not currently working much, or at all
- Showing that you earned enough credits from past work to qualify
- Showing how you have one or more serious health impairments
- howing why you can’t return to your old job, or handle a new job
- Showing why you won’t be able to work for at least a year
This is like telling your life story, with documents to back it up.
But with disability attorney Abbey Clarkson and her team helping you, you can get this done.
We know what to do and how to do it. And we make sure you’re treated with dignity and respect along the way.
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Are you trying to figure out if you should even try getting disability benefits? Do you need to put in an application? Did you already apply and get turned down? Your Alabama Social Security Disability lawyer can step in at any point and help you.
How Does Social Security Disability Work? Get Answers.
Social Security Disability is a huge, complicated program that often doesn’t seem like it cares much about you and your needs. Can’t get answers to your questions? Your disability attorney from Clarkson Pennington Law is the one who truly cares and guides you. Talk to us.
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