What is in My Social Security Disability File?
Most Social Security disability files are no longer paper files but electronic files stored in computers. All Social Security disability files contain the medical source and work history information that you provided during your initial disability interview along with the medical records garnered from these sources such as:
1) Reports from consultative medical examinations (medical examinations that are paid for by Social Security to evaluate an individual’s current disabling condition or conditions).
2) Treating physician statements (a statement written by your own doctor that describes your diagnosis, prognosis, and limitations from their view point--also known as a medical source statement or RFC form). Note: Statements from a claimant's own treating physician or physicians typically come into play at the hearing level and are typically obtained by a claimant's representative as SSA currently makes no attempt to obtain an RFC form or medical source statement from medical treatment sources.
Your disability file also includes all disability evaluation forms used by the disability examiners and the on site physicians at the state disability agency that, in most states, is known as DDS, or disability determination services.
Basically, your disability file follows you to all levels of the Social Security disability process. For instance, if your initial disability claim is denied your disability file will follow you to the next level, a reconsideration appeal. Of course all the medical information gathered at this level is added to your disability file, and if you are denied, your disability file will continue on to the administrative law judge disability hearing appeal level.
You disability file at this point will have many medical records, questionnaires, and various disability evaluation forms.
So what is in your disability file? Every available medical record along with your physician’s statements, and the opinions of various disability personnel, third party disability questionnaires, and your own competed disability forms are contained in your disability file. Basically, your disability file is a chronicle of your life since you became disabled and initiated the disability claim process.
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1) Reports from consultative medical examinations (medical examinations that are paid for by Social Security to evaluate an individual’s current disabling condition or conditions).
2) Treating physician statements (a statement written by your own doctor that describes your diagnosis, prognosis, and limitations from their view point--also known as a medical source statement or RFC form). Note: Statements from a claimant's own treating physician or physicians typically come into play at the hearing level and are typically obtained by a claimant's representative as SSA currently makes no attempt to obtain an RFC form or medical source statement from medical treatment sources.
Your disability file also includes all disability evaluation forms used by the disability examiners and the on site physicians at the state disability agency that, in most states, is known as DDS, or disability determination services.
Basically, your disability file follows you to all levels of the Social Security disability process. For instance, if your initial disability claim is denied your disability file will follow you to the next level, a reconsideration appeal. Of course all the medical information gathered at this level is added to your disability file, and if you are denied, your disability file will continue on to the administrative law judge disability hearing appeal level.
You disability file at this point will have many medical records, questionnaires, and various disability evaluation forms.
So what is in your disability file? Every available medical record along with your physician’s statements, and the opinions of various disability personnel, third party disability questionnaires, and your own competed disability forms are contained in your disability file. Basically, your disability file is a chronicle of your life since you became disabled and initiated the disability claim process.
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