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Category Archives: Vocational or Work Issues
If You Can Not Return to Past Work Are You Disabled?
In most cases Social Security must decide that you cannot do your past work or other work before awarding you disability benefits. However, depending on your age, you might qualify just by showing you cannot perform your past work. If … Continue reading
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Vocational Experts: Can They Help Your Disability Case?
Vocational Experts (VEs) are intended to be impartial experts, meaning they are not out to prove or disprove your case. Some VEs are actually independent. They state their opinion and stick to it. Other VEs let disability judges affect their … Continue reading
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Is it OK to Work while Receiving Social Security Disability?
While it is best for your case that you are not working at all during the application process, this is sometimes impossible due to your financial obligations. Working does not necessarily cause you to either lose a social security disability … Continue reading
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Questions Asked During a Disability Hearing
In a typical disability hearing the judge and your attorney will take your testimony. The questions they will ask fall into four broad categories: 1) background information, 2) work history, 3) medical conditions and symptoms, and 4) activities of daily … Continue reading
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