In the last few years we have seen more and more media reports of American's collecting social security disability benefits who are not legiitimately disabled: The New York City policemen alleging psychological and mental disabiity presenting to state psychological...

In the last few years prominent (in term of advertising presence) personal injury/car wreck attorneys have begun handling social security disability cases in Texas.  Tort reform in Texas has by most accounts reduced both the number of personal injury lawsuits and the...

This Sunday night CBS “60 Minutes” plans to air a story on Social Security Disability focusing on the growth of the program over the last 4 years. This story follows on the heels of a PBS story critical of the standards for determining disability and suggesting that...

A recent academic study at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas TX focused on the incidence of obesity among disabled Americans. It found that the prevalence of obesity and what the study defined as “extreme obesity” among those with disabilities...

Over the last several years we have seen media stories on the growing number of Americans receiving social security disability benefits.  More conservative media sources such as The Wall Street Journal and Fox News have implied that the Obama Administration has...

My fellow social security disability lawyer Jonathan Ginsberg has written an excellent blog on the dangers that social media and Facebook may pose to social security disability...

I often field phone calls from persons who have filed for disability benefits many years ago, and want to re-visit some of the issues in those old cases. Typically, such phone calls are precipitated by a conversation that the caller had describing the long past...

A critical question in assessing your disability is how much you can lift and carry, both on a "frequent" basis (2/3rds of the workday) and on an "occasional" basis (1/3rd of the workday). We men often have trouble with that question. I call it the "John Wayne"...

I have thought carefully about making this post, and I want to tread very carefully on this subject. It is well-known that the biggest complaints that clients have about their social security disability attorney is the failure to return phone calls promptly. And all...

Federal Law prohibits the seizure of Social Security Disability Benefits to collect on a debt. But many debt collectors do not follow the law (what a surprise). Debt collectors who have secured a money judgment sometimes go after money held in bank accounts of Social...

Texas workers are, to say the least, very frustrated when they receive a social security denial. At least 2 or 3 times a week I talk to claimants who are even more frustrated that they know persons in the community getting social security disability who are not nearly...

Social Security law is federal, not state. So a New York based law firm is able to represent a Texas social security disability claimant. As a result there are a number of law firms that brag about being "nationwide" and being "the most successful in the...

We seem to live in a culture obsessed by age, and the Social Security disability rules seem to reflect that. Etiquette and good manners tell us that it is rude to ask a woman how old they are. But unfortunately I have to be rude every day when I talk to folks in my...

Drug and alcohol abuse seems to be rampant in the United States.  And if you have a pending social security disability claim and you are abusing these substances, you are not only poisoning your body;  you are poisoning your social security disability case. Social...