At some point, when your multiple sclerosis gets severe enough, it can become impossible to stick with routines like going to work and staying there all day.
You never know when your symptoms will flare up and force you to stop. When you can’t be steady on the job anymore, your financial health and sense of security also suffer.
Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits cover multiple sclerosis. Benefits provide monthly income support, access to Medicare even before retirement age, and breathing room to manage your condition with less stress.
Multiple sclerosis isn’t difficult to get Social Security to recognize. It can be difficult to get them to see that your case has advanced to the point where you cannot work, which is the core requirement for disability benefits.
Many people with multiple sclerosis can work for a long time. Many can work with the right treatment and support. Some cases are mild, some severe. Everyone is different. Social Security will deny your disability claim if it thinks you can still work more than a little bit.
Get a skilled disability lawyer to make your case to them. Lachman & Gorton Law Office has decades of experience helping thousands of people, including many with multiple sclerosis, in Upstate New York.
Read below for more on getting disability benefits for multiple sclerosis. And reach out to us in Binghamton, Elmira, Oneonta, Rochester and across the region.
When you go to the Social Security Administration (SSA) with a case of multiple sclerosis, and you tell them you can’t work, they say they will look to see if you have MS symptoms like these:
When symptoms like these become intense enough, frequent enough and last long enough, you may have a strong application for Social Security Disability benefits.
Sometimes it’s hard to know. Get some certainty about your path forward by talking to our Upstate New York Social Security Disability lawyers. There’s no charge for us to listen to you and review your case.
For the best chance of winning Social Security Disability for multiple sclerosis, you need medical evidence reinforcing that you have symptoms like the ones above on a debilitating level.
Social Security uses medical records to distinguish between the multiple sclerosis cases where people could still work, and ones where they can’t.
While your own reports of how multiple sclerosis has altered your life are a part of your disability claim, they also want to see information from other people who have observed you.
For neurological disorders like MS, Social Security says it will review evidence such as:
Your disability attorney can help gather these documents.
In fact, if they have experience with thousands of disability benefits claims, your lawyer will know the most important documents to get, how to get them, and how to present them to Social Security.
It takes a lot of the work off you to have a Social Security Disability lawyer on your case. And because Social Security is set up to be strict, denying most claims, it helps to have a lawyer so you can avoid mistakes that lead to denials.
Get in touch with the Lachman & Gorton disability lawyers. When you can’t work because of multiple sclerosis, you deserve economic benefits that can provide the foundation for a more secure, healthier life.