Winning your social security case seems to be getting tougher. Maybe its because of the increase in applicants. Too bad you can not judge shop. This means trying to pick a favorable job. The statistics on judges are mindboggling. Some judges will grant a high perscentage and some judges a low perscentatege.
Here's a link to a social security disability attorney that picks top blogs with helpful information to help you.
This is the social security blog round up. This link should take you to a page on his blog that lists the artice I wrote back in march on the topic
Some of the other topics covered are : Attorney vs non- attorney
Another reason you may be denied your social security benefits(there are many traps you can fall in to. Your credibilty is key)
How to describe Pain (You want to be very specific about location intensity duration )
By Cincinnati social security disability lawyer Anthony Castell.. Call me to get answers to your questions 1-800-447-6549
Friday, November 12, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Social Security Disability for Epilepsy by Cincinnati Lawyer
Social Security has stringent requirements to get disability benefits for epilepsy. As November is Epilepsy awareness month I wanted to give you a short primer on social secuity disability for epilepsy.
Epilepsy is a listed illness. This means that if you meet these criteria and are not working gainfully you will be approved for benefits. The assumption from meeting or equalling a listing is that you are unable to work because of the severity of your epilepsy.
Here is a brief outline of the listing :
11.01 Category of Impairments, Neurological
11.02 Epilepsy - convulsive epilepsy, (grand mal or psychomotor), documented by detailed description of a typical seizure pattern, including all associated phenomena; occurring more frequently than once a month, in spite of at least 3 months of prescribed treatment. With"
A. Daytime episodes (loss of consciousness and convulsive seizures) or
B. Nocturnal episodes manifesting residuals which interfere significantly with activity during the day
11.03 Epilepsy - nonconvulsive epilepsy (petit mal, psychomotor, or focal), documented by detailed description of a typical seizure pattern including all associated phenomena, occurring more frequently than once weekly in spite of at least 3 months of prescribed treatment. With alteration of awareness or loss of consciousness and transient postictal manifestations of unconventional behavior or significant interference with activity during the day. http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/11.00-Neurological-Adult.htm
So with grand mal seizures you need to have them at least once a month and with petit mal more fequently than once per week. Even if you do not have the exact symptoms you still can be found disabled if you are unabe to work for at least one full year.
By Cincinnati social security disability lawyer Anthony Castelli click the back link for help
Epilepsy is a listed illness. This means that if you meet these criteria and are not working gainfully you will be approved for benefits. The assumption from meeting or equalling a listing is that you are unable to work because of the severity of your epilepsy.
Here is a brief outline of the listing :
11.01 Category of Impairments, Neurological
11.02 Epilepsy - convulsive epilepsy, (grand mal or psychomotor), documented by detailed description of a typical seizure pattern, including all associated phenomena; occurring more frequently than once a month, in spite of at least 3 months of prescribed treatment. With"
A. Daytime episodes (loss of consciousness and convulsive seizures) or
B. Nocturnal episodes manifesting residuals which interfere significantly with activity during the day
11.03 Epilepsy - nonconvulsive epilepsy (petit mal, psychomotor, or focal), documented by detailed description of a typical seizure pattern including all associated phenomena, occurring more frequently than once weekly in spite of at least 3 months of prescribed treatment. With alteration of awareness or loss of consciousness and transient postictal manifestations of unconventional behavior or significant interference with activity during the day. http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/11.00-Neurological-Adult.htm
So with grand mal seizures you need to have them at least once a month and with petit mal more fequently than once per week. Even if you do not have the exact symptoms you still can be found disabled if you are unabe to work for at least one full year.
By Cincinnati social security disability lawyer Anthony Castelli click the back link for help
Friday, October 8, 2010
Free Prescription Medication for disability Claimants by Cincinnati Attorney
If you are applying for social security disability benefits you probably are struggling to make ends meet. Surely you need medication. Doctor samples only last so long. Here are some links that you can go to to apply to get a greatly reduced price if not downright free medications.
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
Select Benefits Network
The good news is that you can afford a social security lawyer . That is because most lawyers work on a fee contract that calls for 25% of your past due benefits if they are awarded. This means that if there is no back benfit awarded or you looose your case no fee is owed. So you do not have to come up with a retainer to pay an hourly fee. Additionally most lawyers cap the fee at $6000. so if your back benfit is over $24,000.00 the fee would still only be $6000.
by Cincinnati social security disability attorney Anthony Castelli. Call Yony today at 1-800-447-6549 to get help
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
Select Benefits Network
The good news is that you can afford a social security lawyer . That is because most lawyers work on a fee contract that calls for 25% of your past due benefits if they are awarded. This means that if there is no back benfit awarded or you looose your case no fee is owed. So you do not have to come up with a retainer to pay an hourly fee. Additionally most lawyers cap the fee at $6000. so if your back benfit is over $24,000.00 the fee would still only be $6000.
by Cincinnati social security disability attorney Anthony Castelli. Call Yony today at 1-800-447-6549 to get help
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Cincinnati Social Security Disability Shocking Statistics on denials Revealed
Social Security Disability judges in Cincinnati and throughout the United States have a wide variance on the decisions they allow. In other words one judge may allow a large percentage of the cases before them. Another judge may disallow a large percentage of cases.
In Cincinnati one judge had made 257 decisions for 2010 and only allowed 102. Another judge had 196 decisions and allowed 105. Another judge made 290 decision and only allowed 79.
While a more favorable judge heard 450 cases and allowed 415. What a wide discrepency. How can this be. My take is that some judges are more compassionate than others and if the evidence is there , such as a treating physicians report, they are likely to accept it as controlling on the capcity of what a person can do.
The judges that deny consistently write their decisions to circumvent the treating doctor's report and use isolated circumstances so call into question the claimant's credibilty.
Here is the link to al the social security judges disability decions for 2010.
Social security disability judges decisions
by Cincinnati West Chester Ohio social security disability attorney call today 1-800-447-6549 to get answers and to get help.
In Cincinnati one judge had made 257 decisions for 2010 and only allowed 102. Another judge had 196 decisions and allowed 105. Another judge made 290 decision and only allowed 79.
While a more favorable judge heard 450 cases and allowed 415. What a wide discrepency. How can this be. My take is that some judges are more compassionate than others and if the evidence is there , such as a treating physicians report, they are likely to accept it as controlling on the capcity of what a person can do.
The judges that deny consistently write their decisions to circumvent the treating doctor's report and use isolated circumstances so call into question the claimant's credibilty.
Here is the link to al the social security judges disability decions for 2010.
Social security disability judges decisions
by Cincinnati West Chester Ohio social security disability attorney call today 1-800-447-6549 to get answers and to get help.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Social Security Disability Claimant Finally Meets Attorney at Hearing
If you are a Cincinnati social security disability claimant would you really want to meet your attorney for the first time right before you appear in front of the Administrative law Judge for your hearing. If I was a claimant, about to have one of the most important aspects of my life determined with the help of an attorney, I would certainly want to meet the lawyer well in advance of the hearing.
Sure you can talk on the phone or correspond by mail. But is that the same as meeting someone in their office face to face and getting your questions answered. Don't you want to see on the attorneys face that they understand you. The attorney should also should want to see on your face that you understand them. After all how much do you care about someone if you never met them?
Most disability attorneys not only meet their client when they are hired, they meet with you days before the hearing to go over your case with you to prepare you for the hearing. Then they meet with you before the hearing to reinforce and highlight the keys issues for your case.
So you might want to think twice before you hire a so called national social security firm. One that likely does not even have an office here. Also know that the local Cincinnati disability attorneys work closely with the local Cincinnati administrative law office and are more likely to know what the different judges are looking for to allow or deny your case. Sure you might say, Tony aren't you being a little self serving. Maybe so. But there are many great local social security disability attorneys that I would recommend you hire rather than an out of town national law firm that will only meet you for the first time the day of the hearing.
Here's just a few that I would recommend: David Kapor
Jim Williams
Mike Mooney
George Moeller
There are very many other competent local social security disability lawyers. So choose a lawyer you can have the best relationship with. Someone you can get to know face to face.
By Anthony Castelli Cincinnati social security disability Attorney
Sure you can talk on the phone or correspond by mail. But is that the same as meeting someone in their office face to face and getting your questions answered. Don't you want to see on the attorneys face that they understand you. The attorney should also should want to see on your face that you understand them. After all how much do you care about someone if you never met them?
Most disability attorneys not only meet their client when they are hired, they meet with you days before the hearing to go over your case with you to prepare you for the hearing. Then they meet with you before the hearing to reinforce and highlight the keys issues for your case.
So you might want to think twice before you hire a so called national social security firm. One that likely does not even have an office here. Also know that the local Cincinnati disability attorneys work closely with the local Cincinnati administrative law office and are more likely to know what the different judges are looking for to allow or deny your case. Sure you might say, Tony aren't you being a little self serving. Maybe so. But there are many great local social security disability attorneys that I would recommend you hire rather than an out of town national law firm that will only meet you for the first time the day of the hearing.
Here's just a few that I would recommend: David Kapor
Jim Williams
Mike Mooney
George Moeller
There are very many other competent local social security disability lawyers. So choose a lawyer you can have the best relationship with. Someone you can get to know face to face.
By Anthony Castelli Cincinnati social security disability Attorney
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Social Security Decision Granted On the Record For Depression
This post will help you understand how an emotional disorder, such as depression, can be the basis for getting social security disability benefits. The other part of this blog will talk about an on the record decision.
An on the record decision by a social security law judge means that your case did not have to proceed all the way to a hearing where you would be present in front of the judge to testify. It means that the social security disability judge based their decision on the records in front of them. This allows your case to be decided faster than ordinary.
So how do you get an on the record decision. One you can ask an attorney advisor to review the case. Or you prepare a memorandum and have the judge look at it. Of course you must have strong evidence.
In this case my client had a nervous breakdown followed by some improvement. He could take care of himself. But any work was way too stressful and would make the depression and anxiety worse. I asked the treating psychologist to write a comprehensive report and to respond to some particular questions. The report was well thought out and tipped the case in our favor. Such that the judge called and said a hearing would not be necessary. This was despite two earlier denials.
So do not loose heart if you get denied. And don't delay. If you have been denied please call me Cincinnati social security disability lawyer Anthony Castelli 1-800-447-6549 so I can help you get the compensation you deserve.
An on the record decision by a social security law judge means that your case did not have to proceed all the way to a hearing where you would be present in front of the judge to testify. It means that the social security disability judge based their decision on the records in front of them. This allows your case to be decided faster than ordinary.
So how do you get an on the record decision. One you can ask an attorney advisor to review the case. Or you prepare a memorandum and have the judge look at it. Of course you must have strong evidence.
In this case my client had a nervous breakdown followed by some improvement. He could take care of himself. But any work was way too stressful and would make the depression and anxiety worse. I asked the treating psychologist to write a comprehensive report and to respond to some particular questions. The report was well thought out and tipped the case in our favor. Such that the judge called and said a hearing would not be necessary. This was despite two earlier denials.
So do not loose heart if you get denied. And don't delay. If you have been denied please call me Cincinnati social security disability lawyer Anthony Castelli 1-800-447-6549 so I can help you get the compensation you deserve.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Cincinnati Social Security Disability Attorney Wins Benefits for Client
As a Cincinnati social security disability attorney, one of the areas of law I focus, I got a pleasant surprise for a client. A 49 year old man was awarded social security diability benefits for a chronic pain syndrome and associated depression.
The judges decision was delivered about 60 days ago. But all that tells you is that you won. And at what point your benefits start. It does not tell you the amount of the award. The amount is an internal calculation another component of social security makes. It depends on how much you paid into the system and for how long.
So today I received the award cetificate. This tells what the back benefit is. My client will get $54,956.50. My fee was 25% of the back benefit capped at $6000. Also my client will be entitled to Medicare. They were paid from february 2008. Needless to say this will not alleviate my client's disability , but it will help him have a little security and piece of mind.
If you hare thinking about applying for social security disability or have been turned down I will gladly take your call to see if I can help you get the compensation you deserve. 1-800-447-6549. Anthony Castelli Cincinnati social security disability attorney or check me out at my web site www.castellilaw.com
Disclaimer. I guarantee your case is not like this one . Each person is unique and each case brings with it it's own strenghts and weaknesses and potential benefits.
The judges decision was delivered about 60 days ago. But all that tells you is that you won. And at what point your benefits start. It does not tell you the amount of the award. The amount is an internal calculation another component of social security makes. It depends on how much you paid into the system and for how long.
So today I received the award cetificate. This tells what the back benefit is. My client will get $54,956.50. My fee was 25% of the back benefit capped at $6000. Also my client will be entitled to Medicare. They were paid from february 2008. Needless to say this will not alleviate my client's disability , but it will help him have a little security and piece of mind.
If you hare thinking about applying for social security disability or have been turned down I will gladly take your call to see if I can help you get the compensation you deserve. 1-800-447-6549. Anthony Castelli Cincinnati social security disability attorney or check me out at my web site www.castellilaw.com
Disclaimer. I guarantee your case is not like this one . Each person is unique and each case brings with it it's own strenghts and weaknesses and potential benefits.
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