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Music hi there this is Jonathan Ginsberg I'm a social security disability attorney and today I'd like to talk to you about my list in the top 8 ways you can improve your chances of getting approved for Social Security disability this is not an exclusive list this is not something that comes from Social Security this is just reflective of my own experience and getting people approved for disability cases over the last 20-something years so here's my top eight list first and foremost is you've got to have medical treatment I deal without any gaps in treatment in this current climate I'm recording this in 2017 disability judges expect to see a comprehensive unbroken medical record you cannot have gaps of eight months a year 18 months two years where you have not gone to the doctor even if you have a condition that is permanent chronic judges expect to see you go to the doctors so a strong consistent medical record without any gaps is really really important number two your medical condition should be based on a firm diagnosis it's very difficult to win disability benefits when your medical condition is sort of as wish you washy a lot of different types of things it's much better to be a firm diagnosis you have spinal stenosis you have chronic venous insufficiency you have pulmonary function disease it's much better to have a label on your condition and to have a number of various conditions that no one really knows what it is that by the way is why conditions like fibromyalgia and CRPS are difficult to win because they're sort of diagnosis of last resorts and judges are much more comfortable awarding benefits on firm diagnosis with our objective tests for those diagnoses for a spinal stenosis they can do an MRI for chronic venous insufficiency and an ultrasound for certain other conditions of conduction studies Orion or mgs or CT scans so anything that subject to and to some sort of objective medical test that's going to help obviously mental health conditions don't fit that bill but there are certain tests that psychologists and psychiatrists can do to make a diagnosis about a particular I'm going to health condition like schizophrenia depression anxiety and so forth so the more specific the diagnosis I think the better number three is always take your medications as prescribed and adhere to what your doctor tells you it's not good when a medical record says that my client is not being compliant with medical treatments or my clients not taking medications the judge will assume that you're not being compliant and that taking medications because you really want that bad off so they expect you judges expect you to be fully compliant with your medical condition and if you're having bad side effects for example with medications let your doctor know don't simply that's not taking medication never tell the doctor about the side effect we need to have a medical record that reflects all that type of thing and it's really important that you do that number four is we need to have your medical information your medical condition translated into work capacity limitations which is the language Social Security speaks that means you need to get your doctor to fill a functional capacity evaluation or to complete a narrative report that addresses your limitations that arise from your medical condition in terms of how it impacts you at a potential job that is a language Social Security speak so if they understand work capacity so you need a doctor who cooperate cooperate with you in that regard if you don't have a doctor will cooperate you need to find another doctor because that's the language Social Security wants to hear number five is before your hearing practice one of the things that I do with my clients is we spend probably I'd say twice as much time three times as much time as the hearings going to take I'll go over questions we'll practice the answers this is the best way to answer this is the most compelling way to do it it could take three or four hours but the important thing is when my client goes in to hearing and the judge asks a question that's not the first time that person my client tried that question you don't want to be the situation where the judge these llamas can you lift and you say well I never thought about that I don't know not very much all right that's not good you need to say I can with seven to ten pounds once or twice during the course of the day and I have to rest for 15 minutes thereafter or if I listen within seven or eight pounds a gallon of milk I'll be in bed for the rest of the day because of pain or I can lift it once but I won't happen time I'll drop it whatever it is you need to have an answer prepared so you can answer incredibly unbelievably about your physical limitations next is I would tell you not to go into your disability hearing alone people sometimes say well do I really need to attorney records really strong here's the problem is the judges are overworked they they go really fast because hearings last about 45 minutes they use a lot of acronyms a OD DL I do t the list goes on f c/e RFC these are all acronyms that sort of a separate language that the disability judges and attorneys speak and you've got 45 minutes in front of that judge you want to waste on a time trying to understand what's going on so one of the advantages of having an attorney is number one we will come up with a working theory of disability for your case that can be the listing good rule functional capacity will develop the strongest argument and here a lot of times I'll have a client with three or four different things or five or six different things I'm going to focus on the ones I think that the most diet will for social security purposes which may be different with my client things so it's really important to have professional guidance as to making the most of that a 45-minute hearing and not to try to educate yourself on the fly when you're actually at the hearing you're going to frustrate the judge frustrated judges gonna probably say no so hearings you want to be really organized a pre-hearing brief is always is almost always very very helpful these are things that an attorney can do for you and the other thing which is really really crucial is that once you request a hearing which again could be in a year or two before you actually double your hearing during that year year and a half you where you're waiting you as the claimant or your attorney has the responsibility of getting up to date medical records if you all can do a hearing and the last medical record is two years before and you say oh yeah I've been to the doctor a bunch of times with those records aren't there you got a problem judge is going to probably deny the claim under some new rules are going to go into effect in March of 2017 the record is going to close at the hearing so you don't have anything missing and one of the things that an attorney is going to do is to make sure that medical record is updated so I would tell you not to get laughing this number six don't go in alone number seven is you want to avoid evenly with the suggestion you are malingering or drug seeking judges hate people who use the medical services to be in a drug addiction whether it's prescription or not so if you go to see a pain doctor for example don't go to see another pain doctor and get pain medications for both those people judges will assume you're selling the medications that will destroy your credibility and it's more likely than not you're going to lose your claim so don't have any evidence of drug seeking behavior and in fact you want to tell your doctor I don't want to be on these narcotic drugs and let's find some other way to treat my pain judges appreciating people who are trying to avoid these stronger kind of drugs that are out there nowadays and last I think number eight would be I think this is really important this is something I emphasize for my clients want you're not doing with the attitude of entitlement we have to prove you're disabled you can't go in and say judge I know I'm disabled - please pay me judges pick up on that they don't like people who feel that they are disabled already you want to go with the idea I'm a fighter I hate the idea of being disabled I don't want to be disabled I'd like to go back to work and I'm using this process only to get to get whatever benefits I can't financial and Medicare so that I can get better and go back to work my goal is not to be a disability the rest of my life my goal is to get back to work judge senses that's what you're all about not that you're and that you're not you don't want to be on disability and take an early retirement for the rest of your life because you're disabled that's going to go a long long way to sort of subconsciously help the judge I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and approve your clients so those are my top eight factors that I think are really important when it comes to trying to win a disability case you may have some other ones I'd be interested to hear that I mean the attorneys watching this if you have any other suggestions please something like that as well we can certainly update this video sometime in the future if you found this video useful please give it a thumbs up on YouTube like it on Facebook subscribe to my youtube channel like my Facebook page if I can answer your questions for you please reach out to me directly this is Jonathan Ginsberg wishing you the best thanks a lot hi this is Jonathan Ginsberg and I hope you found this video helpful if you'd like to know more about how to win your social security disability case I'd like to invite you to download my secrets to getting approved early survival kit that I created just for people like you currently I'm making the survival kit available at no cost and I encourage you to grab your copy now some of the topics I cover include how do I know if I have a case it's at the right time for 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