Social Security Disability Practice is the definitive resource that offers step-by-step guidance to handling claims. With it you'll learn how to handle a disability claim from the first interview through appeals and attorney fees. The book also offers in-depth analysis of medical proof requirements for determining specific disabilities and provides more than 80 forms. Topics include: How to handle problems resulting from delayed claims or denial of claim Filing a client's new claim while appealing an old one Appeals of partially favorable decisions Claimants who were previously on disability insurance benefits Claimants who want to return to work Death of a claimant • Recovery of attorney fees • Cross-examining vocational experts • Disability claims of prisoners and fugitive felons • Medical basis for determining disability • Attorney fees in multilawyer firms • Getting payment of an Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) fee