SOUTHFIELD
If you’re struggling with health and financial problems in Traverse City, the local disability lawyers at Levine Benjamin Law Firm can help you regain financial control.
Southfield Disability Attorney
Southfield’s tree-lined neighborhoods, golden skyscrapers, and proximity to Detroit make it a great place for hardworking people who want peaceful lives and big city opportunities.
But none of it matters if you’re ill and unable to work. If you can’t pay your bills, do those commutes, afford the city’s dining and shopping, or even enjoy great local resources like the Carpenter Lake Nature Preserve, life in Southfield feels much more limited.
Social Security Disability benefits can improve your situation.
You can receive monthly benefit checks to help take care of your needs, allowing you to live with dignity and a measure of financial stability. To get through the process of applying for benefits, work with an experienced Southfield disability attorney from the Levine Benjamin Law Firm.
For over 60 years, we have helped Southfield residents secure their disability benefits. We’re the leading Michigan-based Social Security Disability law firm by the total amount of benefits we’ve won for clients, and our office is right here in Southfield.
It’s easy to call or visit to discuss your situation. You pay no disability attorney fee until you win benefits.
We’re your neighbors, and when you’re dealing with an uncaring system to get help you need, we treat you with dignity and respect.
From applying to appealing, we help you every step of the way.
You and your case can benefit from the experience of the local disability attorneys at Levine Benjamin.
What Social Security Disability Benefits Can You Get in Southfield?
Social Security Disability benefits come in different forms. These include:
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI): This is for injured or ill individuals who have an established work history and paid Social Security taxes for a long time. Your health condition must be so severe that you’re unable to work a minimum of one year.
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI): SSI does not require a work history. For your health problems, the qualifying conditions are the same as SSDI. But SSI is for people with little financial cushion in savings, investments, property or other sources of income besides working.
- Disability benefits for spouses: Spouses and widows or widowers of people who qualified for SSDI or otherwise qualified for Social Security can also claim disability benefits when they have eligible medical conditions.
- Disability benefits for adult and underage children: Children with disabilities can receive SSI benefits when their families qualify financially. Other children can sometimes receive benefits as dependents of a worker who gets SSDI. Adult children who’ve never been able to work much due to health problems from a young age could claim SSDI benefits if their parents paid a qualifying amount into the system.
One of the most important benefits of qualifying for SSDI is that it gets you early access to Medicare health coverage. That means you’ll need to pick a health plan. When you get to that step, Levine Benjamin has Medicare Advantage advisers who help.
Levine Benjamin’s Southfield disability lawyers also help with another form of disability assistance that’s not from Social Security. If you have a private long-term disability insurance policy through work or on your own, we can help you deal with the insurance company to maximize your claim.
When you’re trying to get disability benefits, you undergo a lot of scrutiny about whether you truly can’t work. It’s already terrible that you have to deal with the physical, mental and emotional strain of not being able to work to earn a living. Now you have to fight with a complicated government program.
Talk to a Levine Benjamin disability attorney in Southfield as soon as you realize that your health will stop you from working.
At Levine Benjamin, we understand that life happens and that your health sometimes works against you.
Get us to provide a FREE evaluation of your disability claim.
The disability attorneys at Levine Benjamin know the local legal system and the local resources available to you.
Understanding the Process of Getting Social Security Disability in Southfield
When you need Social Security Disability, you go through three phases:
The Qualifying Phase: Assessing your health condition to determine your eligibility for SSD benefits. Although Social Security has strict requirements and a “blue book” listing of health conditions that qualify for disability, the truth is that any physical or mental health condition severe enough to stop you from working qualifies. The challenge is you have to prove it.
The Application Phase: Requires accurately filling out a lot of forms, and collecting and sending a lot of documents. This is an often-delicate process that requires a careful approach, as it sets the stage for your application’s approval or denial. Even a small mistake can lead to a benefits denial.
The Appeals Phase: If your initial application was denied, you can appeal that decision. You probably should. It feels like a rejection, but it’s important to know the vast majority of initial filings for disability benefits are denied. It’s almost Social Security’s default response as they apply strict rules to prevent anyone undeserving from getting benefits.
It’s best to allow an experienced disability lawyer in Southfield help you file for benefits from the beginning. Some disability lawyers won’t help from the first step, but Levine Benjamin does.
An experienced and dedicated Southfield disability attorney from Levine Benjamin takes care of the entire process, from the beginning to the end.
We’ve been helping Michiganders since 1964 and have handled over 80,000 disability claims. This is what we do.
In Southfield, let us help you return to financial stability and tranquility.
Contact a Southfield disability lawyer.