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Important Reasons Why You Should Hire A Social Security Attorney

29 December 2016 by Kenneth Pierce

Have you been applying for social security but your claim keeps getting denied? Has your doctor said that you're too ill to continue working, but you currently have no choice? Having to choose between risking your health or not paying your bills is not a choice that you should have to make. But being denied for your social security claim can leave you with very little choice but to continue working and hope that nothing bad happens to you. The best choice, however, is to get an attorney to help you with your claims. Unfortunately, you may be shying away from this option due to misconceptions that you've heard over the years. Here are some of the top reasons why you should consider hiring a social security attorney:

No money up front: Many types of lawyers will expect a substantial deposit up front, called a retainer, before they will go to work for you. This is not the case with a social security attorney. Instead of being paid up front, he or she will take a percentage of your first social security check. While this can be somewhat substantial, since the first payment includes payment for all of the months since you first filed for social security, without an attorney your claim could get denied again and you'd have no money at all. After that first payment, you get to keep all of your social security money from then on.

Better paperwork: Even though you may be perfectly capable of filling out forms, it may not be good enough for the people at social security. You may be missing some small bit of information that could be the difference between getting your money and being denied again. A social security attorney has the experience to know exactly what the people reviewing your application will expect. Instead of having to go back and forth, submitting additional information that was somehow missed before, you should only have to put in one more application.

More knowledge: If it's been years since you first filed your application for social security, chances are good that one or more relevant laws have changed and you may not know. These laws can change how you're supposed to file and what you're expected to do or know. A social security attorney is expected to keep up to date on all of these developments, helping you to navigate the system and to update your application based on current needs.

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