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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA Click the link below and fill out the following form if seeking help from a disability lawyer or attorney in Raleigh, North Carolina NC If I qualify for ssd disability in north carolina will I be able to get food stamps? The food stamps program provides benefits under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. However, the food stamps program and the social security disability program (and the SSI program as well) really have nothing to do with each other. Eligibility for food stamps is strictly a financial eligibility issue; whereas with disability benefits the primary issue is whether a claimant may qualify medically, according to criteria set forth by SSA.
Can you win disability for only certain impairments, or on the basis of any impairment? 
As these hypothetical examples show, disabling conditions can take a wide variety of forms. "Permanent injury to my right hand shoulder and neck from a car accident. Inable to grip things without dropping them in my right hand can not lift more than 10 lbs. trouble standing long periods at a time due to lower back injury and extensive nerve damage in my neck." "Suffer from back and neck,I have had two fusions on the neck and three surgeries on my back and possibly a fourth on my back, I have disc that deteriorate... I went in for surgery on my back last august,went to work for one month a month ago, now off again because of my back, I suffer leg, hip back,foot, headaches, if I sit too long I hurt, standing in one place is a no no, walking kills" "Emphysema and I have had Asthma for the last 6 years. Because of all the medications I am on I can not stay awake for 8 hours at a time." "Childhood depression untreated/undiagnosed until recently resulting in the following: affective disorders, disturbance of mood, accompanied by a full or depressive syndrome, prolonged emotion that involves depression" 
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