Illiteracy is not considered to be a medical condition by the Social Security administration. It is considered to be a level of education. Therefore, a claimant cannot draw disability on the basis of illiteracy, alone. However, claimants who have serious medical conditions, and are also illiterate, sometimes have a better chance of qualifying for benefits …
Claimants who file for Social Security Disability benefits have physical impairments, mental impairments, or a combination of both. The claimant will testify at a hearing about the symptoms related to their medical impairment(s). The claimant’s testimony will be heard by an Administrative Law Judge or “ALJ.” The ALJ will compare the claimant’s testimony to the …
Disability claimants are awarded if their medical conditions meet, or are the medical or functional equivalent, of published medical criteria known as “listings.” It requires an opinion statement from a doctor to establish medical equivalence. Unfortunately, there is no listing for migraine headaches. Our firm recently successfully argued that a claimant with migraine headaches was …
The Social Security disability system has a very strict definition of disability. Social Security demands that applicants prove, with objective medical evidence, that their medical conditions prevent the performance of any gainful work on a fulltime basis. For example, a truck driver who is found medically unable to drive his rig may not be disabled …
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