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Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits After a Stroke? How Does the Social Security Administration Determine if I Qualify for Disability Benefits for a Stroke? About Stroke and Disability Winning Social Security Disability Benefits for Stroke by Meeting a Listing Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Stroke Getting Your Doctor's Medical Opinion Residual Functional Capacity [...]

Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits After a Stroke? How Does the Social Security Administration Determine if I Qualify for Disability Benefits for a Stroke? About Stroke and Disability Winning Social Security Disability Benefits for Stroke by Meeting a Listing Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Stroke Getting Your Doctor's Medical Opinion Winning Social Security [...]

Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits After a Stroke? How Does the Social Security Administration Determine if I Qualify for Disability Benefits for a Stroke? About Stroke and Disability Winning Social Security Disability Benefits for Stroke by Meeting a Listing Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Stroke Getting Your Doctor's Medical Opinion How Does the [...]

VII. USING YOUR OWN VE’S AND MA’S A. When and why to get your own expert witness I have an easy rule to decide when to try to hire a VE or an MA: I try to hire my own expert witness if having one is necessary to assure that I will win the case. [...]

VI. CROSS-EXAMINING VOCATIONAL EXPERTS Vocational experts are called to testify far more often than medical advisors. The foundation of their testimony is also far less scientific, or at least verifiable, and therefore subject to far more challenges. Space and time constraints prohibit complete coverage of this topic, but I will try to point out some [...]

IV. CROSS-EXAMINATION TECHNIQUES IN GENERAL A. Get the witness to prove your case When cross-examining an expert witness you should remember that his expertise, as your own, has bounds. You know far more than he does about the regulatory criteria for disability. You may be able to get him to prove your case without his [...]

Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome / Complex Regional Pain Syndrome? How Does the Social Security Administration Decide if I Qualify for Disability Benefits for RSDS / CRPS? About RSDS / CRPS and Disability Winning Social Security Disability Benefits for RSDS / CRPS by Meeting a Listing Residual Functional [...]

Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits for Multiple Sclerosis? About Multiple Sclerosis and Disability Step 3 of the residual functional capacity (RFC) to decide whether you are disabled at Step 5 of the heavy, light, or medium work, which requires you to lift and carry up to 50 lbs and stand and walk 6 [...]

Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits for Lung Disease? How Does the Social Security Administration Decide if I Qualify for Disability Benefits for Lung Disease? About Lung Disease and Disability Winning Social Security Disability Benefits for Lung Disease (Chronic Pulmonary Insufficiency) by Meeting a Listing Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Lung Disease Getting Your [...]

Can I Get Social Security Disability Benefits for Ischemic Heart Disease? How Does the Social Security Administration Decide if I Qualify for Disability Benefits for Ischemic Heart Disease? About Ischemic Heart Disease and Disability Winning Social Security Disability Benefits for Ischemic Heart Disease by Meeting a Listing Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Ischemic Heart Disease [...]