What You Need to Know About Social Security

Many people assume that when they have been injured and rendered unable to work due to their disability, they can tap into an account full of benefits called Social Security Disability. However, this is untrue. There are several qualifications you must meet before you can even consider the option of Social Security Disability benefits.

In order to receive benefits, you must have worked for a certain amount of time and actually paid taxes into the Social Security program. You can only receive these benefits after you have a disability force you to stop working after it has lasted for at least 12 months or is expected to result in death.

You need to have worked for at least 5 of the last 10 years before you became disabled. The amount of benefits you are entitled to will rely upon this.

It is important to keep in mind that many Social Security Disability benefits are denied. However, simply because you have been denied does not mean that you should not receive benefits. With an experienced Social Security Disability attorney, you will have an advocate of your rights on your side to ensure that you obtain every cent that you are entitled to.

Without an attorney present, you may fail to get the benefits that you so rightly deserve and rely on to get by.

Call the Whitley Law Firm today to learn more about obtaining benefits and filing an appeal with a lawyer if you have been denied benefits in the past.

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