Social Security Disability Claims: Practice and Procedure guides you through the Social Security disability claim process, from application to payment, outlining what steps to take and when. With it, find needed claims information quickly, plus updates on claims applications, payments, hearings, judicial review, and appeals, as well as comprehensive analysis regarding:
- Regulations, Social Security rulings, acquiescence rulings, POMS, HALLEX, Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and caselaw
- Disability standards, including problems of proof, evidence development, and federal evidentiary standards
- Program concepts, including cessation reviews, attorney fees payment, benefits calculations, earnings records, and overpayments
Other topics include:
- Cessation reviews and payments calculation
- Sequential evaluation procedures
- Case presentation and preparation
- Cross-examination of medical and vocational experts
- Social Security disability insurance
- Supplemental security income
- Disabled adult child's insurance
- Disabled widow's insurance
- Techniques for determining severity of impairment
Sample pleadings and briefs, legal forms, and questionnaires are included.