Compassionate Allowance Series By Stephanie O. Joy, Esq., JoyDisability.com 7/30/2021 Degos Disease Degos Disease is a recognized Compassionate Allowance disability by the Social Security Administration. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0423022380 Background Degos Disease is also known as Degos-Kohlmeier Disease; Degos Syndrome; Malignant Atrophic Papulosis; MAP; Kohlmeier disease; Papulosis Atrophican Maligna. Degos Disease is an SSA Compassionate Allowance disease and i

There are many pitfalls one can fall into very easily that will later prevent a person or family from getting the most Social Security insurance benefits they have earned and paid for over the years. Decisions made today can very well effect benefits amount in 20 years. This includes both Social Security Retirement Insurance (Old Age, etc.) and Social Security Disability Insurance. The attached PowerPoint presentation was a summary used during a 2016 presentation to New Je

Compassionate Allowance Series By Stephanie O. Joy, Esq., JoyDisability.com 7/16/2021 Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease Early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease is a recognized Compassionate Allowance disability by the Social Security Administration. Because a diagnosis is often elusive, many people suffering from EOAD and becoming disabled from it, do not successfully apply for their Social Security Disability benefits. Instead, they go without until they can file for early or full-ag

Courtesy of the Social Security Administration "Reasonable Accommodations and the Path to Employment" https://choosework.ssa.gov/wise?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery# 07/28/21 - Reasonable Accommodations and the Path to Employment Date: 07/28/2021 Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Contact: Ticket to Work Call Center Email: support@choosework.ssa.gov Phone: 1-866-968-7842 TTY: 1-866-833-2967

Whether you are planning a pro se filing for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, or are hoping to retain a lawyer, two easy actions to take that will start you in the right direction from the start are: 1) Obtain your DLI 2) Obtain your annual Social Security Earnings Statement FIRST: The first gem is to know your DLI. DLI stands for Date Last Insured. Yes, you are either insured for SSDI or you are not. You may have been in the past and it expired like the ter

Happy Independence Day weekend to all of our clients, former clients and associates! (For a view on the Social Security Administration's word on this day in a recent 2019 statement, see here.) During these trying times, I hope you are able use it to bring you and yours the most joy and peace so well deserved by you, as you deem fit for yourself. For me, always on this day, I gratefully recognize and use my freedoms, and deem fit for myself in my own way to: I use this h