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What happens at a social security disability hearing in north carolina? On the day of a disability hearing, a claimant will show up at the hearing office with their attorney typically about 30 minutes early. During the actual hearing, the judge may direct questions to the claimant and may pose hypothetical questions to either the claimant or a medical or vocational expert who has been asked to appear. However, quite a bit happens prior to when the hearing even starts. Typically, the attorney will have worked to get all a claimant's medical record updates gathered and will have submitted these to the judge so they may become part of the records. Additionally, both the judge and the attorney will usually have read the claimant's file in preparation for the hearing.
Can you win disability for only certain impairments, or on the basis of any impairment?
Answer: The Social Security Administration's disability evaluation system does not focus on a claimant's diagnosis, but, rather, on the functional limitations a claimant has. In other words, the name of the condition is not the chief consideration. How the condition "affects and limits: the indiviual is the primary concern. So, yes, disability benefits can be won on the basis of nearly any condition provided that the condition is sufficiently limiting.
As these hypothetical examples show, disabling conditions can take a wide variety of forms.
"I have stiffness and pain in most of my joints, but especially in my knees and feet. I have been diagnosed with a partial tear of my left achilles tendon, but I don't seem to able to get anything done to repair it. I was also diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists and either fibromyalgia or mixed connective tissue disorder."
"Bursitis which is very painfull to my left hip and leg also swelling of legs, I have had several surguries such as Appendix, Gallbladder, Adhesions, bil Lumpectomy, Hernia repair"
"Diagnosed with Endolymphatic Hydrops, and have pressure in ears and back of head, headaches, and now I have developed ear pain."
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