Dallas Fort Worth Social Security Disability Lawyer

"My Doctor says that I am Disabled: Why won't Social Security believe her?"

In the past 20 years of social security disability practice in Dallas Fort Worth, I have heard this sentiment on countless occasions.  It can be a point of real frustration for social security disability applicants.   Here are a couple of key points to help understand this:

1. Social security disability regulations provide that the decision as to whether or not you are "disabled" under the Social Security Act is "reserved" to the Social Security Administration.  A treating doctors opinion is important, and is to be considered, but it is not dispositive.
2. Your treating doctor's opinion on your functional limitations is most important to your case.  This is why cursory doctor letters saying to the effect "my patient is permanently and totally disabled" do not win the day.
3. You need a skilled and experienced social security disability to present your doctor's opinion on the functional issues that social security disability finds doctors competent to address, and present these opinions in a persuasive manner.

At the Denman Law Office, we have been working with client doctors for 20 years in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex to secure social security disability benefits for deserving claimants.  Talk to attorney Denman without charge about your case at 214-219-7288.