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If you apply for social security disability or ssi disability and your claim is denied, you should file an appeal immediately. Filing an appeal is almost always preferable to starting over with a brand new disability application. Claimants who continually pass up the opportunity to file an appeal in favor of filing a new disability application will, typically, just get denied time and time again. Following the appeals process, on the other hand, will increase a disability applicant's chances of approval, though this may not be the case until a claim is brought before an administrative law judge at a disability hearing. To file an appeal, simply contact the social security office within sixty days of the date of your denial letter. If you have an attorney working on your claim, of course, you should contact your attorney as soon as you become aware that your claim has been denied. If social security denies your claim and you are not represented by a lawyer, you may wish to find a disability lawyer as soon as possible. What happens immediately after you file an appeal? It depends on the type of appeal you need to file. If you are filing a request for reconsideration (reconsiderations may be eliminated, on a region by region basis, in the future), your social security disability or ssi disability claim will simply be given a second look (and the odds are considerable that your claim will be denied again). 
If you are filing a request for hearing, your request will initially be sent to the social security office and then transferred to the office of hearings and appeals that has jurisdiction over your local area. Once the case has been transferred there, it will essentially go into a considerably long line behind hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of other disability cases. The wait for a hearing, it goes without saying, can be excruciatingly long and financially damaging to a disability claimant. For this reason, claimants who are entering the hearing phase should anticipate a long wait and prepare financially as much as possible for what may lie ahead. Disability Advocates Help with Claims Free Case Evaluation |
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