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If a heart attack left you unable to participate in the same activities you did before—especially working—you may qualify for financial assistance from Social Security Disability benefits.
Benefits provide monthly income support and access to Medicare health coverage when a health crisis cuts off your ability to work and earn a living.
It takes a tremendous amount of pressure off you, letting you know your basic needs are covered so you can rest.
Winning disability benefits after a heart attack, however, isn’t guaranteed.
While these kinds of medical events are shocking, they have to contribute to a long-term impairment for Social Security to approve your disability benefits application.
Social Security will consider whether a heart attack reaches the level of a disability under its guidelines for cardiovascular conditions.
Enlist help from the Upstate New York Social Security Disability lawyers at Lachman & Gorton Law Office to put your claim together.
Our disability attorneys have helped thousands of people in Elmira, Binghamton, Oneonta, Rochester and across the state.
While your doctors care for you after a heart attack, let us look out for your Social Security Disability case and getting the resources you need to support your life.
Though it’s traumatizing and life-changing, a heart attack on its own isn’t necessarily eligible for Social Security Disability benefits.
To get benefits, you must be too physically limited to work for at least a year. Many people who experience heart attacks can return to work faster than that.
But a heart attack clearly can be an important part of your disability claim.
An underlying cardiovascular condition related to your heart attack could make you unable to work for the long-term, so you qualify for benefits. Social Security specifically recognizes and grants disability benefits for heart diseases such as:
To apply for disability benefits for heart disease, you’ll need to show Social Security medical evidence confirming the severity of your condition.
Your evidence can include doctors’ exam reports, lab test results, electrocardiogram (ECG) results, medical imaging such as x-rays, exercise test results, and drug-induced stress tests.
You’ll also need to give a history of your cardiovascular disease progressing over time, what treatments you’ve received, and how your condition has responded to treatment.
And you’ll need to cross-reference your symptoms with the demands of the jobs you have the training and background to hold, showing how your heart condition prevents you from working.
Get a skilled disability lawyer to build your benefits claim after a heart attack, so you can avoid mistakes, increase your chances of winning benefits, and focus on taking care of your health.
Talk to Lachman & Gorton to see what your heart disease disability claim will require. We’ll review your situation for no charge.