Nationwide Help Available With Social Security Disability Insurance Claims
Most people expect to work until retirement age, but things don’t always go as planned. When a disabling medical condition prevents you from continuing to work, the loss of income can be as stressful as the medical condition.
You may have heard about disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance program. However, you are reluctant to apply because you learned how the disability determination process annually rejects more than 66% of the applications received by the Social Security Administration.
National Disability Experts want you to know there is no reason to delay applying for SSDI benefits. We are the disability professionals that people nationwide trust to guide them through a long and complicated process to get them the disability benefits they need during difficult times. Contact us for a free consultation to learn how National Disability Experts as your disability attorney makes a difference in the outcome of your claim.
We Are Disability Professionals
Our knowledge, training, and unsurpassed understanding of SSDI disability determination allow you to avoid the frustration of wading through federal regulations and confusing rules controlling the process of applying for and qualifying for SSDI benefits.
Responsive And Attentive To The Needs Of Our Clients
National Disability Experts puts the needs of our clients first and foremost. We never take for granted that you entrusted us with securing your financial future.
We Do Not Receive Payment Unless You Win
You need not worry about not having money to hire an outstanding SSDI attorney to handle your disability benefits claim. We work on a contingency fee basis and do not get paid unless you win.
Frequently Asked Questions About SSDI
One way to remove some of the confusion and uncertainty from Social Security disability is with information that explains the process. Here are questions commonly asked by our clients and answers from an SSD attorney at National Disability Experts:
The Social Security retirement system includes SSDI, which pays benefits to workers who become disabled and unable to work before reaching retirement age when they can collect Social Security retirement benefits. People who worked long enough and recently enough and paid Social Security taxes on their income are insured under the disability program managed by the Social Security Administration.
If you do not meet the requirements to be insured under the SSDI program, you may be eligible for disability benefits through the Supplemental Security Income program. SSI does not require a work history to qualify for benefits. An SSD attorney at National Disability Experts can explain the SSI eligibility rules and determine if you meet them.
SSDI benefits are determined based on a worker’s lifetime earnings. The more you earn while working, the more you receive monthly SSDI or retirement benefits. However, the amount of money a worker contributes annually to the Social Security system is capped, making the maximum SSDI monthly benefit $3,822 in 2024.
The average monthly benefit Social Security reports for 2024 is $1,537. You can learn about your monthly SSDI benefit by letting a National Disability Experts disability professional review your employment and earnings records.
You must be disabled to qualify for SSDI benefits. To meet the requirements of the federal definition of disabled, you must have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that makes you unable to do any substantial gainful activity. The impairment or combination of impairments must have lasted or be expected to last for a continuous period of at least one year or result in death.
Substantial gainful activity (SGA) refers to the physical or mental activities you must engage in at work to earn a living. Social Security determines whether you can engage in SGA based on your monthly earnings from work. If you have a disability other than blindness, SGA is $1,550 per month. It’s $2,590 monthly for someone applying for SSDI because of blindness.
You can appeal a denial of your claim for SSDI benefits, but you must act immediately. You only have 60 days to file an appeal, so contact National Disability Experts as soon as you receive notice of the denial to give us sufficient time to protect your right to challenge the adverse decision.
Just because your application for SSDI was initially denied is no reason to give up. Many people who are denied benefits during the initial determination process have success and win benefits through the Social Security appeal process.
Our disability professionals begin by carefully reviewing your claim and evaluating the reasons it was initially denied. We gather and review the medical records, employment records, and other evidence available to prove that you are insured through SSDI and disabled within the definition used by the Social Security Administration.
If we agree to take on your case, our SSDI attorney will explain the process and answer any questions you have about it. The attorney also explains how contingent fees work in SSDI cases. You pay no money upfront. We only get paid if you win. Our payment is a percentage of back payments awarded in the case.
The fee arrangement in SSDI cases is overseen by the and must be approved by the Social Security Administration. We receive 25% of past-due benefits or $7,200, whichever is less. If you appeal to federal court after exhausting all appeals at the administrative level, the same 25% contingency fee applies, but the $7,200 cap does not.
The fee arrangement must be presented to you in writing, and we only proceed to represent you after it has been signed by you and us. We encourage you to review the agreement to determine that it is right for you before agreeing to it.