Description

This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows you how to prove a disability, and explains how your age, education, and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability.

Learn how to:

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• find the disability criteria for your medical condition
  
• prove the severity of your disability
  
• appeal if you're denied benefits
  
• work part time while keeping your benefits
  
• prepare for a Continuing Disability Review,
  
• and more.
  

Plus, this book is packed with filled-in samples of all the forms you'll need, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications.

This new edition includes:

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• a new discussion of getting disability for Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS)
  
• explanations of Social Security's updated medical listings for back pain, musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, Raynaud's phenomenon, polymyositis, and dermatomyositis.