Social Security Disability Insurance is different than a private short term or long term disability plan provided by your employer. SSDI is also very different than Workers Compensation:
Private Long Term or Short Term Disability Plan |
Workers Compensation |
Social Security Disability |
Depending on the insurance contract, pays you cash benefits if you can not do the job you were doing when you became disabled. |
Pays you cash benefits if you can not do the job you were doing when you became disabled. The workers comp insurance company may award cash benefits based on a percentage of disability, depending on how severely you were injured on the job, and how long your injury will hurt you ability to work. |
Pays you cash benefits if you are unable to do any work that is "substantial gainful activity" because of a physical or mental impairment which has lasted or is expected to last for 12 months, or which can be expected to result in death. |
Social Security Disability has its own special rules for deciding your case. There is no "partial disability" or "percentage of disability" with Social Security. The regulations require that your impairments prevent you from doing ANY kind of work that a person of your age and education could be expected to do. And, your impairment must result from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities that Social Security claims workers can see in " medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques."
Whether your Application for Benefits is being reviewed by a Reconsideration worker, an Administrative Law Judge or the Decision Review Board, your case deserves the representation provided by an attorney who specializes in Social Security Disability Law.
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