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If your anxiety symptoms are serious enough to stop you from working and supporting yourself, Social Security Disability benefits can provide a financial lifeline.
Most people get denied the first time they apply for disability, but that’s not the end of this process. The Binghamton disability lawyers at Lachman & Gorton Law Office can help with your appeal.
Winning disability benefits is always difficult, but making a claim for a mental health issue like anxiety is especially challenging.
Many people live with anxiety, and symptoms can vary widely from person to person. Most anxiety sufferers won’t be approved for Social Security Disability.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) doesn’t just need to see that you experience anxiety. You must prove you can’t continue in your current job. In fact, your disability claim needs to make it clear you won’t be able to do any job for 12 months or more.
Only around 40% of initial disability claims get approved in New York.
If you’ve been denied disability benefits for anxiety, you should act quickly. You can appeal and keep your claim moving through the system, but you must file your appeal within 60 days of your denial letter.
The Lachman & Gorton Upstate New York disability attorneys can offer you a FREE case evaluation and tell you how our team can help you get another chance at financial relief.
Everybody’s anxiety is different. Even your own anxiety symptoms might vary in severity from day to day.
Sometimes anxiety makes it difficult to sleep, so you go to work tired and unable to focus.
Sometimes you manage to sleep through the night, but you still can’t stay on task because your anxiety distracts you.
This disorder makes it difficult to manage your mood, remember information you’re given, and interact with others. It can even cause painful muscle tension.
Some days your anxiety could be extreme enough to stop you from leaving your home entirely.
For a Social Security Disability claim, it’s important to look at your anxiety along with any other medical conditions to explain how your health prevents you from working a substantial amount and supporting yourself.
Inability to work is the key qualification for disability benefits.
If you’ve tried treatments and done everything you can to curb your symptoms, but you still can’t work, that will increase your chance at approval for benefits.
But even when you think your symptoms are severe enough to stop you from working, Social Security is sure to put obstacles between you and the financial relief you deserve.
Work with our Upstate NY disability attorneys. We can help you build your claim and show how debilitating your anxiety symptoms are.
Social Security looks at an assessment of your abilities that they call your “residual functional capacity,” or RFC.
At Lachman & Gorton, we’ve developed a special process for working with doctors who assess your RFC, so you get the right information presented in the right way. Doctors often don’t know what details you need for a successful benefits claim, so we help guide the process.
Your RFC may be the most important piece of your disability claim for anxiety.
Start with a FREE disability claim consultation.
Showing that you should qualify for disability benefits due to your anxiety isn’t easy, but knowing what you need to do to make your claim more convincing can help you on your appeal.
You’ll need extensive medical documentation and evidence of disruptions to your work to prove your anxiety disability claim.
Items that can help include:
Even if you think that you have learned from your denial and you now have everything that you need to back up your anxiety disability claim, we don’t recommend appealing on your own.
Let the Lachman & Gorton team help you.
When you appeal a Social Security Disability denial, you need someone on your side who knows this process well.
Some firms won’t connect you with a lawyer who can handle all stages of your appeal, but our team can support you every step of the way.
Our Upstate NY disability lawyers can:
Disability lawyer Peter Gorton takes more than 75 cases to federal court each year.
We know how hard it can be to win disability benefits, especially for mental health issues like anxiety.
Work with an experienced attorney who will give your disability claim the attention and effort it deserves.