by Joel Ban | Apr 1, 2018 | Social Security Disability
eeSome people who apply for disability may feel that the disability work history report is a straight forward task. Unfortunately, there are a variety of traps that need to be explained. I will attempt to do so in this article so that Social Security understands...
by Joel Ban | Jul 27, 2017 | Social Security Disability
Expensive medical records is an understandable frustration of many disability applicants. This is despite the fact that most of these records are kept electronically. They should be very easy to transfer to the patient. Solutions exist under the HITECH Act. What is...
by Joel Ban | Apr 12, 2017 | Social Security Disability
A huge source of confusion among Veterans is how individual disability ratings are combined to produce their overall rating. When a Veteran has two or more service-connected disabilities, their overall disability percentage is determined by using a special table to...
by Joel Ban | Nov 29, 2016 | Social Security Disability
Citizenship status and SSDI eligibility You do not need US citizenship or permanent residency to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSDI”). However, you must work in The United States legally. In addition, you must have a social security number and...
by Joel Ban | Nov 17, 2015 | Obtaining Your VA Records, Social Security Disability, Veterans Law
The success of your claim(s) is often dependent on how successful you are in locating records critical to proving these claims. This is especially true if you have more historic claims. Here the challenge is locating service treatment records that typically go the...
by Joel Ban | Nov 11, 2015 | Social Security Disability
Much has been made of Social Security’s new rules that were put in place in the beginning of 2015. The rules were implemented after notice and comment procedures. The general goal of these rules were to provide clarity that was previously lacking in terms of what...
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