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Serving Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky – Disability Law Firm
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| Is there a list of illnesses that Social Security considers automatically disabling? |
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Answer: There is a list of very severe conditions that include blindness and deafness. Because most types of illness can vary from minor to severe, most conditions are not considered automatically disabling. The severity of the disability is determined by an individual evaluation along with the impact the disability has on the person’s ability to work.
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| Why does Social Security turn down so many claims for disability benefits? |
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| Answer: There is no simple answer to this question. One reason is that there is no simple way to determine whether an individual is disabled. Most people who are disabled suffer from pain. There is no way of determining whether or not another individual is in pain, much less how much pain they are in. A second reason is that Social Security, over the years, has been more concerned with making sure that everyone who is receiving Social Security disability benefits is "truly" disabled than with making sure that everyone who is disabled receives Social Security disability benefits. An underlying reason is that Social Security has always believed that, given a chance, many people will "fake" disability in order to get benefits. |
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