You Deserve Financial Relief When You Have to Stop Working in Plano
Workers like you are the reason Plano grows and grows.
When you put in years in local industries like health, technology, manufacturing, energy, telecommunications and more, you deserve protection from financial breakdown because of a health crisis.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is one of the most important economic safeguards that exist for when medical issues rob you of your livelihood.
It’s a form of insurance that you pay into and earn. It’s not free money. But the government has thousands of rules to make sure only deserving people get it—which makes the process long and difficult.
Go easier on yourself by getting the Morgan Weisbrod disability lawyers in Plano to be your guide in securing vitally needed financial relief.
- Our DFW lawyers have 150 years of combined experience
- We’ve helped thousands of people
- We’re one of the leading disability law firms in Texas
In addition to Social Security Disability, if you’re a veteran of the armed forces living in Texas with damage to your health from your service, Morgan Weisbrod can help you maximize your veterans’ disability (VA) benefits. In the right circumstances, you could get both SSDI and VA benefits.
Plano is a thriving, prosperous place. From the Arbor Hills Nature Preserve to Downtown Plano to the Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve, life is good here. It’s disorienting, to say the least, to run into hard times.
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How to Get Benefits with Help from Our Plano, Texas, Disability Lawyers
To qualify for Social Security Disability benefits, you must prove you can’t work because of bad health, and that you will have to miss at least a year of work if you haven’t already.
It’s easy to say that your medical conditions make it impossible to work. It’s harder to prove.
A lot of work goes into applying for Social Security Disability.
Here is some of it:
- Filling out pages of Social Security forms
- Getting records from doctor visits and sending those to Social Security
- Sometimes getting special exams and forms filled out by your doctor
- Providing several years of your work background
- Providing income history
- Explaining your education and training
- Attaching statements confirming your health struggles from friends, family and others
They deny disability benefits often, so the way you answer questions and the types of medical evidence you provide are important.
Experienced Plano Social Security Disability attorneys help with this.
We help with the grunt work of gathering all your information. But more than that, we help present the information to meet Social Security’s highly particular and involved way of approaching what it means to have a “disability.”
You don’t have to pay an attorney fee until you win benefits.
How to Appeal a Social Security Denial with Our Plano Disability Attorneys
When people first apply for disability benefits, about 80 percent of them get denied.
But not all of those people get denied in the end. It’s pretty much standard to file a disability appeal.
For many people, appealing is when you’ll most likely win approval for financial relief. At this point, the process becomes much more like a legal case, and you’ll want a skilled Plano disability attorney supporting your case.
Here’s what you do:
- Ask Social Security to “reconsider” their decision. When you do this, add medical records, correct gaps in your application, and build arguments for why you should get benefits.
- Ask for a hearing with a disability judge. This step typically has the highest chance of success. You update your documents again. You describe your life with medical limitations to an administrative law judge. You may need to cross-examine medical or workplace experts who testify about whether they think you could do some kind of work.
- Ask for a review by the Social Security Appeals Council. If the judge denies you, you can file briefs pointing out errors in the judge’s reasoning or process. This is all done through paperwork. You need an experienced disability lawyer.
- Ask for a review by a federal judge. Your last step is filing a lawsuit in federal court arguing Social Security’s process was flawed. You need a lawyer to file your legal briefs. The judge could approve or deny you, but most likely they will send your case back to Social Security with instructions to decide it differently.
No matter how much work this takes, or long it takes (and when you’re appealing it easily takes over a year), you still don’t need to pay your disability lawyer until you win—and never if you don’t win.
It’s worth it to put in the effort because benefits can be life-changing when they finally come through, letting you live more peacefully.
Helping you get there is what the Plano Social Security Disability lawyers at Morgan Weisbrod are all about.
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