Function Report Q#5 - Dos and Don'ts in 2023 Social Security Disability Cases!
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Function Report Q#5 - Dos and Don'ts in 2023 Social Security Disability Cases! Question number 5 is often a mess that provides zero help in describing how your impairments limit the activity you can do during a full day. Don't make that mistake, it sticks in your case FOREVER. Listen up, pay attention.
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Stephanie Joy has been practicing Social Security Disability law EXCLUSIVELY, no legal dabble elsewhere, since 2005.
I gave my attorney full discloser to all my medical records. Including hospital records and all medical professionals I had visited in the past. This video is spot on. Be Short and simple with filling out the paperwork.
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I went from being able, to wax and strip floors and moving heavy furniture from classrooms to classrooms ,climbing 12 foot ladders ,running buffing machines and vaccums and to barley being able to walk kids across the street and I was making almost 2 grand a month to not even 500. A month, all because of having herniated discs and spondylitis and all acuda equina and I so need ssi because I cannot hang on much longer
I assume you have an experience Representative Jenifer. If not, consider it. Sometimes they are hard to come but, do try. Fingers crossed for you in 2024.
How can you add all these details in this small space without adding an additional paper? I have multiple conditions both physical and mental that prevent me from working. I see a job posting on indeed that looks like something I can do, then you see the first requirement lifting 50lbs. Followed by standing 8 hours, I'm already done reading that one. Unfortunately this seems to be the case with most jobs that I think I can handle. Even the part time jobs are the same. I'm 56 , not a Skippy 20 year old.
It may work better with practice, how to concisely include the issues that will effect your case. Not all do for all people, each person has vocational profile whereby certain limitations will be more impacting to the decision. If your "back limits your walking, standing, sitting, bending, kneeling, bending stair climbing to very short periods...", I just told that in one sentence. "Brain fog limits memory, concentration, focus, getting stuff done." Pain limits use of hands and fingers and reaching." You have a lawyer, right, to help you?
Remember too: this is not a 'hearing' at this point, it is simply to touch on what activities you are limited in due to your disabilities - it is not necessarily needed that you spell out which impairments cause each, since each one can cause several, and several can be caused by multiple impairments in different ways. You are not to pretend to be a medical expert determining which impairment causes what - that would be redundant since your MEDICAL records are supposed to explain that.
@@AllThingsSocialSecurity yes, I left them a message yesterday asking for help filling this out. Seems like lots of lawyers don't want to do much to help win cases in my experience. They want to just file some paperwork for your case and get paid at the end for not doing much of anything. I just fired the lawyer I hired a year ago. I hired a big name lawyer and I am going to put my foot down about them doing the work not me because what's the point of having a lawyer if you feel alone in the process.
They can't responsibly help you fill it out if they are not very well-versed with your medical records and situation. If you do not retain the lawyer, he can't be your lawyer. And yes, they do want to win their cases if they are appointed as representive, b/c that is THE only way they get paid, even the relatively minute fee that is permitted. I am going to share with you a video about firing your lawyer. Truth is, you had no knowledge of the legal work he was doing that you are not there to see or know, b/c it is about the SSA laws. The lawyer is only hired to do the LEGAL work, not your secretarial work for you, or your paperwork - assuming you are unhappy with having to provide him the data he needs to analyze, draft up all docs/applications, demanded reports, research and write the brief, prepare for direct and cross examination at the Hearing of both you, a vocational expert brought in by the SSA, and or a medical physician brought in by the SSA. He cannot read your mind. He is required, under law, to ask you for it. Now, if he was not drafting your actual legal docs noted above AFTER you provided him the data on the forms you were to put them on, well, then I can understand the frustration. I do not allow my clients to send in anything straight to SSA. It comes here, we do our lawyer review and work and correcting after a conversation on any ambiguities, and then we file it. Client files NOTHING. Much dissatisfaction with lawyers, I believe, is that they do not communicate well and reasonably frequently with clients. I use a message portal system, so mine have it differently,but then again, I don't practice SSD like old school - I broke from that 25 years ago. Good luck to you. It is rough going it alone.
Hi my question is if I have 10 impairments with different impacts would it be acceptable to bullet point them and list the condition then the impact?
I feel like I’ve got to convey more information than the space allows. Normally I would put a bride of my situation for context. But now I’m not sure & maybe I should just trim it to bullet points.
Below is optional reading for context.
Sincerely
Drew a chalk outline of myself which made it easier to detail the impairments head to tow.
After GI surgery most of them started and were interpreted as complications by my doctors ( myself too)
Ended up with type 2 diabetes.
- endocrinologist thought I had it for up to 3 years which explained the severity of my symptoms
- one of my first a1c tests was 14.5 which is not on many charts
- I’ve got about 10 impairments
- any one of them as a stand alone would not qualify me ( my opinion)
- together they do qualify me ( my opinion)
- this has impacted every aspect of my life. For this document I’m likely going to overlook something or just leave it off
With regard to #5, you do not have to list the impairments, particularly if it deprives you of needed substance space - b/c you already told them of all impairments in your application. Use #20 to guide you as to what limitations you can list in #5.
I went from being able, to wax and strip floors and moving heavy furniture from classrooms to classrooms ,climbing 12 foot ladders ,running buffing machines and vaccums and to barley being able to walk kids across the street and I was making almost 2 grand a month to not even 500. A month, all because of having herniated discs and spondylitis and all acuda equina and I so need ssi because I cannot hang on much longer
Jennifer, cauda equina? I am so sorry. Was there an acute injury? Being a paid worker, I'd prefer to see you on SSDI instead of SSI. If you are a 'younger' person it is a tough battle, but persevere and make sure to be very familiar with your DLI.