Can I Get Workers Comp for Psychiatric Conditions or Mental Illness? Suffering from a psychological or psychiatric illness can often times be more difficult than dealing with a physical injury. Everyone can see a broken leg, or a back brace – and so they understand that you are disabled. But because a mental illness or […]
Long Beach Lawyers Discuss How to Win Social Security Cases (Part 2) Whether you are applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), or Supplemental Security Income (SSI), there are proven strategies that can improve your likelihood of recieving the Social Security benefits for which you qualify. In this two part our experienced Long Beach Social Security […]
Long Beach Lawyers Discuss How to Win Social Security Cases (Part 1) In over four decades of practicing Social Security law, our lawyers have seen just about every type of Social Security case. Unfortunately, many times deserving claimants are denied Social Security Disability benefits – while another person with the exact same injury has or […]
Social Security Compassionate Allowance List (2017) Having a condition on the Compassionate Allowance List typically means that a Social Security applicant’s claim will be processed faster. But it does not mean that the Social Security claim will be “automatically” approved in every case. Many of the impairments on the CAL are considered to be disabling based on […]
Lawyers Explain Social Security Disability for Burns– The recent Canyon 2 Fire burned more than 7,500 acres threatening Anaheim neighborhoods, damaging 21 homes, and completely destroying thirteen homes in east Anaheim. Hundreds of Anaheim residents were evacuated – but thankfully, there were no fatalities as result of the Canyon 2 fire. However, anytime there is […]
Lawyers Explain Why Obtaining Social Security Disability Benefits is Harder in 2017– Our experienced Long Beach Social Security Disability lawyers keep abreast of the ongoing changes being made by the Social Security Administration. Unfortunately, this year the Social Security Administration has implemented changes that make it much harder to meet their definition of disability, in order […]
Why Haven’t I Received My Social Security Disability Retroactive Pay? What are Retroactive Social Security Disability Benefits? Retroactive Social Security Disability benefits are amounts paid for the months a person was disabled and unable to work before they applied for SSDI. There is a limit of twelve months of retroactive Social Security Disability benefits that […]
Can I Get Social Security Disability Back Pay or Retroactive Pay? If you are approved for Social Security Disability benefits, you may also be eligible for back payments and possibly retroactive payments. Note that back pay and retroactive pay are two different things. Whether you are eligible for either, or both, back payments and retroactive […]
Social Security Adds 3 Impairments to Compassionate Allowance List– In 2008 The Social Security Administration put in place a “Compassionate Allowance Program” to help the most severely disabled individuals get their Social Security disability benefits faster, without long delays. The Compassionate Allowance List (CAL) program applies to both Social Security Disability (SSDI) cases as well as […]
Collecting Workers Comp for Car & Travel Injuries – Workers Comp Lawyers Explain “Going & Coming Rule” (Part 2): This is PART 2 of an article by our Long Beach Workers Comp lawyers, addressing injuries sustained by employees while driving to and from work, while driving a company car, or while traveling for work. For […]
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