Pittsburgh Brain Disorder Disability Lawyer

Social Security disability (SSD) benefits for brain disorders can be challenging to recover. The Social Security Administration (SSA) requires applicants to submit a certain amount of evidence to demonstrate that their conditions meet strict criteria and prevent them from maintaining gainful employment.

Keystone State residents who need help with their SSD applications should call Berger and Green Attorneys at Law to consult with a Pittsburgh brain disorder disability lawyer. Our Social Security disability lawyers have years of experience  helping victims of brain diseases at every stage of the SSDI and SSI application and appeals process.

What Brain Disorders Might Entitle Applicants to SSD Benefits?

For all its remarkable successes, the medical industry is only beginning to shed light on the multiple diseases, disorders, and pathologies that can impair normal brain functioning. Some of the more common brain disorders that our Pittsburgh lawyers represent claimants for for SSD benefits include:

• Traumatic brain injuries
• Chronic migraines
• Subdural hematomas
• Benign brain tumors
• Epilepsy
• Stroke

Pittsburgh residents suffering from these or any other disorders should understand that acknowledgement of a brain disorder does not carry any adverse stigma or reflect a weakness on their part. Rather, brain disorders are serious medical conditions that are a legitimate foundation to claim and secure SSD payments.

What Evidence is Required to Prove a Brain Disorder?

Your Pittsburgh attorney builds your case to satisfy three basic requirements for collecting SSD benefits for a brain disorder:

• Your complete medical records, including brain scans, reports from psychologists and neurological experts, diagnoses from multiple appointments with treating physicians and clinicians, and validated opinions of the extent and severity of your impairment
• Which SSA Blue Book classification your brain disorder meets, and particularly whether your condition falls under Blue Book section 11.00 as a neurological disorder, or section 12.00 as a mental disorder
• How your specific brain disorder precludes your ability to work, with a focus on whether you are unable to manage the speaking or motor skill requirements of your job, or if your brain dysfunction affects your ability to regulate your mood or impairs your long- or short-term memory.

Make sure you contact an SSD lawyer promptly if you have a rapidly advancing brain disorder, such as aggressive brain cancer, which may qualify your application for expedited processing.

What Can You Do To Help Your Brain Disorder Disability Application?

Only about 30% of SSDI brain disorder applications are approved, but you can enhance the likelihood of approval of your application with some commonsense practices. First, see your medical team regularly and follow all recommendations from doctors and clinicians. Keep a daily journal about how your brain disorder impairs your daily activities. Make sure you record all medications you are taking, when and under what conditions you take them, and how you perceive they are working.

Most critically, trust your SSD application or appeal to an experienced lawyer who can provide strong advocacy for the benefits you are entitled to receive.

Call a Pittsburgh Brain Disorder Disability Lawyer at Berger and Green

Please call Berger and Green for a no-fee, no-obligation conference with a Pittsburgh brain disorder disability lawyer. If you retain our services, you will pay nothing until we recover benefits for you. We are here to help you at this difficult financial time.