Your energy and concentration get crushed by chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). So does your job and income. Social Security Disability benefits can save you from disaster.
With benefits, you get monthly income assistance and Medicare health coverage. And as you deal with an altered life—you get relief from the stress.
You have to approach your application for disability benefits with chronic fatigue the right way.
Social Security doesn’t count a doctor’s diagnosis of CFS as proof of a disability on its own. So you must provide medical records showing how the effects of your chronic fatigue equal the seriousness of the types of diseases they do list as qualifying for benefits .
This isn’t all on you. An experienced Social Security Disability lawyer can take you through the steps of getting disability for chronic fatigue. You don’t pay a disability lawyer until you win benefits.
For people in Upstate New York, Lachman & Gorton Law Office has the experience you need. We’ve helped thousands of people get on better footing with disability benefits in Binghamton, Elmira, Oneonta, Rochester and across the state, including many people experiencing chronic fatigue.
Though Social Security doesn’t consider chronic fatigue—also sometimes called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)—as a separate disorder, in 2014 it issued a document explaining how a person with chronic fatigue can get approved for benefits, which includes:
It’s a highly precise process because Social Security must follow thousands of rules to be sure people truly qualify for financial assistance.
And it’s a hard process, during which most people get denied at least once and need to appeal their cases to higher levels.
But having a Social Security Disability attorney taking care of your claim makes it an easier process for you.
Start by telling us about your CFS or ME case and getting a free evaluation of what you’ll need to do.
The information you need to back up the points above is about your symptoms—what they’re like, how they affect you, how they rule out working.
Social Security gives the advice that for a case of chronic fatigue syndrome, it must be a condition you didn’t always have, it can’t be caused by another health issue, it can’t be due to exertion, it isn’t helped by rest, and it sharply cuts your level of activity.
Here are several specific symptoms you can report:
For every symptom that you put into your Social Security Disability claim, you must provide medical evidence from your doctors and treatment.
Different symptoms come with different types of medical evidence, such as exam reports, lab test results and other medical tests.
Once again, your disability lawyer helps with this. A skilled disability attorney knows what medical documents Social Security needs to see to increase your chances of winning benefits, and how to get the right information from health care providers.
Talk to the Upstate New York disability lawyers at Lachman & Gorton. And after a crisis brought on by debilitating chronic fatigue, get on the path to a more peaceful life.