How an Attorney Can Win Your Case
A Social Security Disability Attorney can provide significant assistance with appealing your claim and winning your case. Some of the benefits are —
- Periodically checking the status of the disability case.
- Resolving problems that may exist on the case.
- Providing necessary information to the disability Examiner assigned to the case.
- Filing social security paperwork required for appeals.
In cases where a case will be heard by a Judge, a Texas Social Security Disability Lawyer will also do the following:
- Obtain a hard copy of your social security disability file.
- Request your medical records.
- Get supporting statements from your doctors.
- Provide copies of your medical records to a Judge.
- Fully prepare the disability case for its social security hearing.
- Additional benefits provided by a disability attorney.
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How Decisions are Made
The Texas Social SecurityDisability office decides your claim for disability benefits on medical evidence. Statements and claims by doctors and others are of very little value if they are not backed up by the medical records.
If you do not properly list every treatment source on a disability application or Texas Social Security Disability Appeal, the effect can be dramatic. A case can literally be slowed down for weeks or months as a result or, worse, be decided without crucial evidence being reviewed. Typically, this results in a denial. Cases that are properly represented, of course, stand a much better chance of avoiding such scenarios and eventually being won.
Your Texas Social Security Disability Lawyer can make sure your evidence is presented properly to give you the best chance of winning your claim for Texas Social Security Disabilitybenefits.
Work Credits and You
One of the criteria for winning your Texas Social Security Disability claim is proving you have the minimum number of “work credits.” The number of work credits you need for Texas Social Security disability benefits depends on your age when you became disabled. Generally you need 20 credits earned in the last 10 years ending with the year you became disabled.
However, younger workers may qualify with fewer credits. The rules are as follows:
- Before age 24: You may qualify if you have six credits earned in the three-year period ending when your disability starts.
- Age 24 to 31: You may qualify if you have credit for having worked half the time between 21 and the time you become disabled. For example, if you become disabled at age 27, you would need credit for three years of work (12 credits) out of the past six years (between age 21 and age 27).
- Age 31 or older: In general, you will need to have the number of work credits shown in the chart shown below. Unless you are blind, at least 20 of the credits must have been earned in the 10 years immediately before you became disabled.
|
31 through 42 |
20 |
|
44 |
22 |
|
46 |
24 |
|
48 |
26 |
|
50 |
28 |
|
52 |
30 |
|
54 |
32 |
|
56 |
34 |
|
58 |
36 |
|
60 |
38 |
|
62 or older |
40 |