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WHY YOUR DISABILITY APPLICATION MAY GET DENIED

The Social Security Administration will likely deny your disability application for one of the following reasons:

  • They will minimize the seriousness of your medical symptoms and the limitations they pose on your ability to perform work activities.
  •  They will assign you an unrealistic Residual Functional Capacity.  For example, they will say you are able to perform Light exertion when you actually are limited to sedentary work.
  • They will admit that you cannot perform your past work but will insist that there exists easier work that you are still able to perform.  This is a Step 5 denial.
  • They may determine that you are still able to perform one or more of your past relevant jobs--that is, a job you have performed within the past 15 years.

There are, of course, underlying reasons for these faulty decisions.  Perhaps your medical records are not persuasive.  Or maybe Social Security didn't receive all of your records.  You may have been careless in describing your past work in your application, particularly on the Work History Report.  

Once you are denied, there's only one thing to do:  file an appeal and ask for a hearing.  This now becomes a complex legal matter and you will want legal representation to help you. 

DON'T DELAY, APPEAL TODAY (LINK) 

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