How much will you get from Social Security

Social Security Disability Payments are calculated based on what your total lifetime average earnings are that you have paid in to Social Security.

Typically, once a year, Social Security send a statement to inform everyone over age 18 how much they would receive, should they become disabled.

To obtain a copy of your statement, please visit : www.ssa.gov/mystatement

Additionally, to get an approximation about what your payments might be, please visit : http://www.ssa.gov/planners/benefitcalculators.htm

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Filing for Social Security Disability Benefits

If you and your medical providers have decided that you can no longer work, the next question to ask is, What do I do now?

Well, if you are under age 65, you may qualify for Social Security Disability.

There are a couple of ways to get the ball rolling:

1. Contact Social Security at 1-800-772-1213, spend the better part of your day on hold waiting for someone to come on the line, only to schedule an appointment for you to go to your local office. Once there, you must again wait in line to be seen by a representative, or

2. File online at http://www.ssa.gov and have the application completed in about 10 minutes.

After the application is submitted, Social Security will bombard you with paperwork. At The Berkley Law Group www.berkleylaw.net, we can effectively navigate the waters of Social Security and provide the guiding light you need to make certain the administration has everything they need.

For more information, please feel free to contact our office at www.berkleylaw.net

SSA COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCES

The Social Security Administration has an obligation to provide benefits as quickly as possible to applicants whose medical impairments meet the guidelines.

Accordingly, Social Security has set forth a program entitled "Compassionate Allowances." This program is designed to quickly identify diseases and other medical impairments that will qualify under the medical listings provision of the Code of Federal Regulations.

The list includes the following:

1
Acute Leukemia
2
Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3
Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
4
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
5
Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
6
Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
7
Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
8
Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
9
Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
10
Canavan Disease (CD)
11
Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
12
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
13
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
14
Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
15
Esophageal Cancer
16
Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
17
Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
18
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
19
Gallbladder Cancer
20
Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
21
Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)
22
Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
23
Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
24
Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
25
Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
26
Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
27
Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
28
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
29
Liver Cancer
30
Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
31
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
32
Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
33
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
34
Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
35
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
36
Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
37
Pancreatic Cancer
38
Peritoneal Mesothelioma
39
Pleural Mesothelioma
40
Pompe Disease - Infantile
41
Rett (RTT) Syndrome
42
Salivary Tumors
43
Sandhoff Disease
44
Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
45
Small Cell Lung Cancer
46
Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
47
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
48
Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
49
Thyroid Cancer
50
Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent



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