Author: Jack Andreas
Do you know that the younger your age when your disability began, the easier the requirement to claim your social security disability benefit? Let’s take a closer look on the two tests to approve the SSD benefit.
If you are as young as 21 and being unlucky to get a tragic accident and loss your leg or become blind, you should be informed about the benefit for disabled people provided by social security insurance. There is good news in the hard time in your life during disability. Either it is permanent disability or temporary which you will recover after sometime, you may loss your main income because unable to do your current job or even incapable to do generally available job.
The good news actually is the length of work required to claim the benefit. For people who began their disabilities at the age of 21 or younger, they could claim the benefit if they do paid job for 1.5 years during the last 3 years before being disabled. If you are older than 21, the required length of work will be 3 or even 5 years. There are other requirement regarding your status of disability, you can seek full information from social security lawyers in Greensboro about this.
The disability is defined quite detail in the Federal Social Security Act regulation. The disability is stands for inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or has lasted or is expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. Take a note that it could be ‘expected’ or ‘has lasted’, it means that you can file for the claim even before your disability has not happened 1 year yet. Social security attorneys Greensboro will be the expert to help you to file the claim in a proper and complete documentation. It is the guarantee of the speed of the process.
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