Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability
eBook - PDF

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability

Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

  1. 465 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability

Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

About this book

Qualify for Social Security disability benefits, quickly and easily

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

Learn how to:

  • 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:

  • an updated discussion of getting disability for long COVID
  • explanations of Social Security’s updated medical listings for digestive and skin disorders.

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Information

Publisher
NOLO
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781413333305
Edition
13
eBook ISBN
9781413333312
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Personal Finance
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction: Your Social Security Disability Companion
  6. 1. What Is Social Security Disability?
  7. 2. Applying for Disability Benefits
  8. 3. Disability Benefits for Children
  9. 4. Getting Benefits During the Application Process (SSI)
  10. 5. Proving You’re Disabled
  11. 6. Who Decides Your Claim?
  12. 7. How Claims Are Decided
  13. 8. Whether You Can Do Some Work: Your RFC
  14. 9. How Age, Education, and Work Experience Matter
  15. 10. When Benefits Begin
  16. 11. Reasons You May Be Denied Benefits
  17. 12. Appealing If Your Claim Is Denied
  18. 13. Once You Are Approved
  19. 14. Continuing Disability Review
  20. 15. Your Right to Representation
  21. Appendix A: Glossary of Bureaucratic Terms
  22. Appendix B: Examples of Technical Rationales for Denials
  23. Appendix C: Medical-Vocational Rules
  24. Appendix D: How to Use the Medical Listings on Nolo.com
  25. Index
  26. Book Registration

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