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If you’re living with muscular dystrophy and cannot work, Social Security Disability benefits could help you cover your expenses and stabilize your daily life.
Because muscular dystrophy appears at different ages, can be mild or severe, and can progress slowly or suddenly, whether you get disability for muscular dystrophy depends on the specifics of your case.
The main qualification for disability benefits is that you must be unable to work because of your medical condition.
If your muscular dystrophy and muscle weakness have advanced to the point that you can’t keep going in a job, you should apply for Social Security Disability.
In Rochester, Elmira, Binghamton, Oneonta and across Upstate New York, the disability attorneys at Lachman & Gorton help
Disability benefits are life-changing, providing monthly checks and access to Medicare.
But winning benefits is difficult. Your chances can improve with a lawyer, and you pay no attorney fee until you win financial relief for yourself first.
Lachman & Gorton has helped thousands of people, including people with muscular dystrophy, fight benefits denials, and get the support they need to take care of themselves and live fuller lives.
Read more below on how to get muscular dystrophy disability benefits even after you’ve been denied.
Social Security recognizes how debilitating muscular dystrophy can be as you lose mobility, develop heart problems, breathing problems, scoliosis and more.
This is what Social Security says you need to document in a disability claim for muscular dystrophy:
How do you show all of this?
You use information that comes from your doctors, such as:
One of the big things they look for is whether you stick to treatment plans by your doctors and whether those treatments help your condition enough to allow work.
Wondering whether you can make a strong appeal for disability benefits for muscular dystrophy?
You can get a free disability appeal consultation from the lawyers at Lachman & Gorton.
If you applied for disability benefits for muscular dystrophy but got denied, you have 60 days from your denial letter to start an appeal.
Most people receive a disability denial at least once. It’s a hard process, but needing to appeal is normal. Appealing may be your best chance of winning benefits.
The lawyers at Lachman & Gorton can help with all of the next steps:
Your hearing with a Social Security administrative law judge is an important moment. It’s the step in appeals when the largest number of people win benefits.
Lachman & Gorton disability lawyers prepare you to testify about how muscular dystrophy has cut off your working life. And we appear with you in your hearing before the judge.
We can also keep your disability claim for muscular dystrophy alive to stages beyond your disability hearing if you’re still denied, appealing to Social Security’s Appeals Council and taking your claim to federal court. Many attorneys don’t go that far.
The lawyers at Lachman & Gorton can present your case in a way that gives you the absolute best opportunity to prevail after a denial. We’ve helped others with muscular dystrophy and know what you need for this type of disability claim.
Social Security Disability is complex and sometimes unfair. The disability attorneys at Lachman & Gorton help you navigate it and get the support you need for a better life when you live with muscular dystrophy.