$100,000 Disability Award 
 
I received a call from a client who told me that she just received her past due benefit check in an amount over $100,000.  In addition, her minor daughter and husband each will be entitled to $25,000 based upon her receiving disability benefits.  Not all cases, of course, result in such a large award of benefits.  In this case, the past due benefits were so high because her monthly benefit amount was substantial and because her minor daughter and husband were entitled to benefits on her earnings record.  Another

Will the 24 Month Medicare Wait Be Eliminated?
by Richard Feingold

Under current law, an individual who has been determined disabled and eligible to receive Disability Insurance benefits must wait 24 full months before becoming eligible for federal Medicare health insurance benefits to begin. Naturally, this can cause a considerable hardship on many people who have been determined unable to work by the U.S. Social Security Administration.

3 Years and Counting!

by Richard Feingold

 
Yes, that's how long I have been back in my own practice helping disabled adults and children obtain their Social Security Disability benefits. 
 
Of course, I have been an attorney since 1986, but three years is how long I've been representing disabled individuals in my own practice here in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.  It feels really good to be here and I am proud of the good work that we've been doing, myself and my paralegal Susan and my assistant Dana. 

Alth

Helping those with Multiple Sclerosis
 
Obtaining medical records is the first step in proving disability. Sometimes files are well- developed by the state agency (Disability Determination Services (DDS)) hired by the Social Security Administration to develop a claimant's file...and sometimes they are not.

by the
Social Security Administration

Michael J.