The disabled worker knows their disabilities and how their disabilities impact the ability to work better than most and sometimes better than their own doctor. Unfortunately, one thing many disabled workers do not realize is Social Security must consider all your impairments and how they interact and prevent you from being gainfully employed.
The law requires Social Security to consider the combined effects of your impairments, whether they be physical in nature or mental-health related.
Many times the disabled worker who is applying for benefits will not list or inform Social Security of all the conditions they suffer from because they don’t believe they are serious enough or believe another conditions are much more serious for which they should be found disabled. It is important to remember the main objective is for Social Security to find an applicant disabled if the evidence exists, so the more evidence, the better.
Too many people withhold information from Social Security or even their own doctors about their symptoms and conditions for a variety of reasons. Many people do not want to let it be known they suffer from mental health conditions, but if these conditions impair an applicant’s ability to work, it is crucial to be known for a Social Security disability case.
The key to a disability case is not what conditions someone suffers from or what diagnosis they receive, but how those conditions and impairments impact the ability to be gainfully employed.
The best approach to take is to fully inform your doctors of what impairments you have and to relay that information to Social Security so the agency can get a full list of the impairments and how they prevent you from being gainfully employed. If you neglect to inform Social Security of a condition, and how it hampers your ability to work, it could result in a disapproved claim.
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