In our Colorado practice, close to half the people who call us use SSDI and SSI interchangeably. Nobody should feel bad about that. The two programs are run by the same agency, use the same definition of disability, and are…
The letter from Social Security finally shows up, and it is asking you a question you did not expect: how do you want to attend your hearing? Phone, video from an office, video from your couch, or in person in…
The denial letter said your diabetes was under control. On paper, maybe it is. Your A1c came down. Somebody wrote “stable” in the chart. And you still cannot stand at a register for more than twenty minutes, you have dropped…
You applied for disability months ago. Maybe more than a year ago. You’ve been living on almost nothing while Social Security takes its time, and somewhere in all of it you keep hearing the same phrase: back pay. Back pay…
A cancer diagnosis rearranges everything inside of a week. Suddenly there are oncology appointments, a treatment calendar, and a body that can’t do what it did a month ago. Work becomes impossible, or close to it, right as the medical…
You were honest on the application. You’re genuinely sick, or hurt, or both, and you can’t work the way you used to. Then a letter showed up from Social Security saying you don’t meet their definition of disability, and it…
You had a heart attack, or your cardiologist finally put a name to the shortness of breath: heart failure, coronary artery disease, an arrhythmia that keeps landing you in the ER. Maybe you’ve got a pacemaker now, or a defibrillator…
The denial letter is sitting on your kitchen table. Somewhere in the dense paragraphs is a line about having 60 days to appeal, and your first thought is some version of: 60 days from when, exactly? And what happens if…
You had a head injury. A wreck on I-25, a fall off a ladder, a blast exposure overseas, maybe a concussion on the job that never really cleared. The scans came back “unremarkable.” On paper, you look fine. But you…
“Are you pro bono, or do you charge?” We get some version of that question on almost every first call, usually asked carefully, the way people ask about prices they are afraid of. It deserves a straight answer, with the…
