If you are approved for a Social Security disability benefit you will eventually get on Medicare — if the disability benefit is based upon someone’s earnings record. To explain, the biggest type of Social Security benefit is the one based upon your own earnings but there are also Disabled Widows […]

Most attorneys don’t try to represent Social Security disability claimants. That’s a good thing. It’s a very specialized practice. You have to know the Social Security Act inside and out which is difficult. The Social Security Act is a little like the Internal Revenue Code. Did you realize that there […]

The word “disability” means different things at Social Security and at VA. The simplest way of describing one important difference is that Social Security is very much focused on whether the claimant can work while the VA is very much focused simply on how impaired the claimant is. A person […]

Social Security benefits, including disability benefits, are the same in N.C. as elsewhere in the country. Except, that Social Security is staffed with flesh and blood people, not robots. Knowing these flesh and blood people matters. No, it doesn’t get you special favors but it does help protect you from […]

One type of Social Security disability benefit is Supplemental Security Income or SSI. Generally, SSI benefits are less per month than other types of Social Security disability benefits. Because SSI pays less, attorney fees (which are generally 25% of back benefits) can be less. That makes some attorneys less eager […]

Representing Social Security disability claimants in Raleigh and throughout North Carolina is what we do. We’re not located in Utah or Massachusetts. We’re right here in Raleigh in an office on Glenwood Avenue. You can visit us in person. We know the local judges and local hearing offices.

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