Social Security Disability - Page 23

The answer is you might be able to get Social Security Disability because you have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The diagnosis alone is not enough to entitle you to Social Security Disability benefits. You have to be under the treatment with a medical specialist, a psychiatrist and hopefully also a psychologist or a therapist. You have to have a condition that is not well controlled by medication. That means that even though you are following all the...

Yes you can. But let's remember the Social Security definition of disability is the inability to work because of your condition for at least a 12 month period of time. Modern medicine has been really good and making great strides in treating cancer and many times even though you have cancer you can undergo surgery or chemotherapy or radiation or other kinds of cancer treatment and your cancer can be controlled in less than one year and the symptoms of your...

Yes you can, but, you need to show that your symptoms are so severe, and not controlled by medication, so that it is clear to Social Security that you will be unable to work for at least one year. Often Parkinson's Disease is controlled for a time with medication and people are able to function. At some point it usually gets to the point where the medication is not working so well and symptoms are increasing despite medication and individual's functional...

Yes, you can get Social Security Disability if you've been diagnosed with a rare disease. But, a diagnosis alone, even if it's a rare disease that a lot of doctors and medical providers are not familiar with, is not enough to get Social Security Disability just based on the diagnosis. Like any other disability, if you have a rare disease, you must show that your symptoms are so severe and not controlled by medication or other treatment to the extent that...

Yes, your age is a factor when Social Security decides whether or not to award you Social Security Disability Benefits. The basic framework is, the older you are the more difficult vocationally it is for you to make an adjustment to a completely different kind of work then the work than you performed in the past. Social Security has some basic age guidelines which they use in evaluating cases. If you are under fifty years old, Social Security rules provide...