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