Social Security Disability

No one knows when injury and resulting disability will impact his/her life.  Injury and resulting disability presents significant challenges for anyone who faces such a situation.  If you have been a wage earner, throughout the course of your employment life, money has been deducted from your paycheck for social security withholding.  In the calendar year 2009, the maximum social security withholding is six thousand six hundred twenty-one dollars which equates to 6.2% of your social security wage base.  Of course, that 6.2% is matched by your employer resulting in a total contribution toward social security currently at a rate of 12.4% of your social security wage base.

So what does that withholding entitle you to?  If you are disabled at a point in time prior to the social security retirement age, you may be entitled to receive social security disability payments if you are unable to engage in any substantial gainful employment.  Unfortunately, even though you may have a clear entitlement to those social security disability benefits, it oftentimes is a tedious process establishing your entitlement to those benefits within the social security administration.  Entitlement to those benefits are governed by multiple regulations and administrative law decisions which clarify what must be proven in order to establish entitlement to those benefits.

At the Humphrey Law Firm, we can assist you in making application for and/or obtaining the social security disability benefits that you’re entitled to.  Further, our involvement is paid for by the social security administration out of any entitlement to any back benefits that we might prove on your behalf.  Obtaining social security disability benefits is confusing and time consuming.  If you need help in determining whether you are legitimately entitled to said benefits and/or in pursuing your claim for social security disability benefits, we are here to help.