Category: SSDI

The envelope is thin. That is usually the first clue. A thick envelope from Social Security means forms and a benefit calculation. A thin one means a decision that fits on two pages, and somewhere on the first page sits ...

You bring in the folder. Two inches thick, maybe three. Years of imaging, referrals, surgical reports, medication changes. Anyone who reads it can see how much has gone wrong. Social Security reads it and denies the clai...

For decades the disability application asked people to reconstruct fifteen years of work history. Every job, every employer, how much you lifted and how long you stood, reaching back to positions you held in your thirtie...

The letter finally comes and says you are approved. Then a second question arrives right behind the relief. What about the last two years? You stopped working, you filed, you waited, you were denied, you appealed, you wa...

You spent decades on the job across Central New York, paying into Social Security out of every paycheck, and now a disabling condition has forced you to stop. A fair question follows: Did you pay in enough to collect Soc...