Category: Disability

The moments leading up to a Social Security disability hearing bring an undeniable wave of anxiety. You have spent months, perhaps years, waiting for this opportunity to present your case. For residents across Central an...

Walking into an Office of Hearings Operations (OHO) in Syracuse or Rochester brings a specific kind of anxiety. You have waited months, sometimes years, for your day in front of an Administrative Law Judge. You know exac...

For decades, workers across Central New York have built their lives in physically demanding jobs. Whether operating heavy machinery in manufacturing plants in Utica, loading freight in warehousing hubs in Monroe Coun...

Your medical chart records a diagnosis and a treatment plan. It does not record the morning your spouse had to help you put on socks, or the shift your supervisor watched you give out after two hours on your feet. That g...

Every Social Security disability claim begins the same way: with a decision about who will handle it. You can file the application yourself, and many people across Central New York do. The harder question is whether help...

You wake up stiff, you sit down, and your leg goes numb, and by mid-afternoon, standing is the only position that does not hurt. Then someone tells you that everybody has back pain. When a spine condition has ended the p...