Glioblastoma SSDI Benefits
Applying for Glioblastoma Multiforme SSDI Benefits in Michigan & Ohio
Being told you have brain cancer is about the most life-upending moment anyone can face. If your brain cancer turns out to be aggressive glioblastoma multiforme, you worry about your future and family.
About 15,000 Americans receive diagnoses of glioblastoma every year, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. Glioblastoma accounts for more than 50 percent of all brain cancer diagnoses.
You know it’s a devastating prognosis. Medical science has recently made strides to give patients more time, but there is no known cure.
This is not the time to have to worry about money. When you can’t work because of health problems, including many cancers, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits preserve your financial stability.
Benefits provide monthly checks and access to Medicare to help with daily expenses when you can no longer earn an income.
To get Social Security Disability benefits, the government typically makes you go through a prolonged process. Social Security denies most cases, sending people on a complicated appeals process.
For obviously severe diseases, however, the government has a program called Compassionate Allowances that speeds up approval of disability benefits.
An experienced Social Security Disability lawyer can make sure you get all the consideration you deserve dealing with this major health crisis.
The Detroit disability attorneys at Levine Benjamin Law Firm have helped more than 80,000 people get financial relief. Reach out to us anywhere in Michigan and Ohio.
From applying to appealing, we help you every step of the way.
Applying for Social Security Disability with Glioblastoma
The government categorizes brain cancer under cancers of the central nervous system (the spinal cord and brain). Glioblastoma is highly malignant and very resistant to treatment.
To show that your glioblastoma is severe enough to keep you out of a job and therefore eligible for disability benefits, you’ll need to show that when you undergo treatment:
- The cancer doesn’t respond.
- It continues to grow.
- Or it keeps coming back.
Because glioblastoma is so aggressive, Social Security says it can qualify for a Compassionate Allowance.
The designation doesn’t change your benefits or the eligibility requirements. But it recognizes there’s no need for a long, labor-intensive process to prove your condition warrants benefits. It flags your case and moves it to the front of the line.
Knowing the intricacies of your case and how Social Security will process your application for disability benefits takes special legal knowledge. Social Security has thousands of rules governing disability benefits and a legal process that includes judges and hearings.
The disability lawyers at Levine Benjamin do this every day. We win the most in disability benefits for clients of any Michigan law firm.
Get our help applying for glioblastoma multiforme SSDI benefits. You pay no attorney fee until you win benefits. It’s free to talk to us about your situation and map out your path ahead.
How To Prove You Qualify for Social Security Benefits for Glioblastoma Multiforme
Winning Social Security Disability benefits, at its core, is a two-part process. You must:
- Confirm you have glioblastoma multiforme.
- Prove it will keep you from working for at least a year, if ever again.
For step one, you need detailed medical records of your symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
Glioblastoma usually begins with headaches, nausea and dizziness. Symptoms worsen to include interruption of your ability to think, tremors and seizures.
But you can’t confirm it’s brain cancer until doctors perform a biopsy to test a sample of brain tissue.
In addition to that medical examination, Social Security will ask for a timeline of your symptoms, your response to treatment, and the prognosis for the disease’s progression.
Then in step two, the government runs your medical information through the lens of whether you are physically or mentally able to work, also factoring in the kinds of past work experience and training you have.
Gathering all this information is hard for someone in perfect health—let alone someone suffering from brain cancer.
But again, with glioblastoma, Social Security may acknowledge the debilitating nature of the disease and award your disability benefits quickly.
Get Levine Benjamin disability attorneys to make your situation clear to Social Security, so you get the help you need to focus on what’s most important, living your fullest life and spending time with your family.