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Many individuals automatically assume that getting an attorney for a social security disability case or SSI disability claim will cost them money, immediately out-of-pocket. And this is a logical and natural assumption. After all, anyone who has ever needed a lawyer for a personal injury claim, a traffic case, or even to draw up a will has found that legal fees, or at least a portion of them, were required to be paid upfront. Fortunately, the disability programs that are administered by the social security administration (title II which is social security disability and title 16 which is SSI) do not work that way. An attorney who represents individuals who have filed for disability only receives a fee after a case has been won, which means an attorney only receives a fee if a case is won. In a sense, this is very much a contingency-fee situation. Not only is the fee for a disability lawyer paid after a disability case is won, it is based on a claimant's backpay and has no connection their ongoing, monthly benefits. Currently, fees paid to lawyers are equal to 25% of the backpay that a claimant receives. In other words, if a claimant receives $10,000 in backpay, the attorney would be entitled to receive 1/4, or $2500 as the fee for representation. 
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