In order to be successful, your application must be complete and thorough with an answer to every question. Consider that everything is taken from the context of effects on your ability to work. Therefore, for example, in completing your application, list every illness and how it affects your inability to work and the name, complete address, and phone number of each and every physician or other medical professional who has treated you for the last two years. Go back additional years if it will provide additional medical support for your inability to work. As to your work history, do the same with your former employers for the past fifteen years. Describe your acitivies. Consider that the medical consultant who reviews your records will provide an opinion about your limitations to work. The disability examiner will use that opinion, along with the descriptions of your past work to see if you are capable of working. Therefore, your descriptions are important.
Be respectful, patient, and honest with the claims representative and disability exmainer. From time to time, inquire kindly if there is anything further you can do to assist them, such as following up with your physician, former employer, teacher, etc., to gently urge them to send a copy of your records to the appropriate person.
Keep copies of every single thing submitted to any office or individual. If one of the offices loses your paperwork, you will save time and headaches by reaching in your file to produce a replacement copy. Try to think like a Social Security disability attorney who always documents every detail with signature and date, and maintains an organized file of proofs (copies).
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