PROVE THESE THINGS AND YOU WILL GET DISABILITY BENEFITS!

Everyone talks about how difficult it is to get Social Security disability benefits.

However, if you can PROVE the following things, you WILL get benefits.

1. You worked enough to be covered under the Social Security Act.

2. You have a severe, medically determined medical condition which has lasted 12 straight months, is expected to last for 12 straight months OR to end in death (terminal).

3. FOR THOSE UNDER AGE 55: Your condition makes it impossible for you to perform any kind of full time work which exists in the United States economy.

4. FOR THOSE 55 AND OVER: Your condition makes it impossible for you to perform any of your Past Relevant Work (meaning, any full-time work you have performed within the past 15-year period).

Those, of course, are difficult burdens of proof. You can certainly allege these things but that's not enough: you must PROVE them using admissible medical and vocational evidence. Most claimants get denied, not because they aren't disabled, but because they don't know how to PROVE IT according to Social Security regulations.