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You may appeal any disability decision you disagree with. Social Security has an appeal process to enable you to ask for a review of your disability denial, as long as you appeal the disability denial within sixty-five days of the denial notice. The disability appeal process begins with a reconsideration of the initial social security disability or SSI disability decision. And, so naturally, the first appeal available to anyone who has been turned down for social security disability benefits or SSI disability benefits is called a request for reconsideration. Who makes the disability decision on a reconsideration? Unfortunately, reconsiderations are sent back to the same state disability agency for processing (in most states, the agency that makes medical decisions on disability claims for the social security administration is called DDS, or disability determination services). Although a different disability examiner reviews your disability claim, the disability reconsideration examiner is still bound by the same rules and guidelines as the initial disability decision. What does this mean to you? It means that roughly eighty four percent of all SSD and SSI reconsiderations are denied. If your disability reconsideration is denied, you can appeal that decision to an administrative law judge, and for most Social Security disability applicants, this is the level at which their disability claim has the best chance of being awarded disability benefits. Why is this? Because the administrative law judge has more flexibility in determining if an individual is disabled under Social Security disability guidelines. 
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