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How age impacts social security disability

If you are trying to claim social security disability benefits, you may wonder whether your age will have an impact on the outcome, especially if you are over the age of 50. It's possible for disabled people of any age to gain benefits because of...

School Records Can be Important

It may seem unusual, but the Social Security Administration often needs copies of school records, sometimes records that were closed decades ago. Unfortunately the records have often been destroyed by the school district. To qualify as a Disabled...

Learning from “Disability for a Day”

A long-ago project in Columbia was "Disability for a Day." Various people volunteered to adopt a disability for the day and then talk about it that afternoon. I decided to use low vision. Since I always wear glasses I rubbed petroleum jelly on the...

NOSSCR

The National Organization of Social Security Claimant Representatives was formed in 1979 by a small group of lawyers who regularly represented claimants in their appeals for disability benefits. Through NOSSCR the lawyers were able to exchange...

Columbia Hearing Office

The second step of the Social Security evaluation (in Missouri) is an administrative hearing before an Administrative Law Judge. For more than 25 years Missouri's Hearing Offices have been located in St. Louis County (Creve Coeur), Downtown St....

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