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If you have spoken with individuals who have have gone through the process of filing for social security disability or filing for SSI benefits, you've probably gotten the impression that the social security administration denies a high percentage of disability claims. And you would be correct in that assumption. SSA denies, nationwide, about seventy percent of all disability cases at the initial claim (application) level. For those who appeal and file a request for reconsideration, the national average is that 84.9 percent of all claims are denied for a second time. In fact, it is only at the disability hearing level that claimants gain much better odds of being approved for benefits (without representation, 40 percent of the claimants who go to hearings are approved and with representation 60 percent are approved). If you receive a Social Security disability denial notice, you should contact your local Social Security office or the toll free Social Security number to request an appeal of the denial. Of course, if you are represented by a disability attorney, you should contact your attorney's office and have them file your disability appeal. You have sixty-five days to appeal your disability denial (sixty days actual appeal time plus five days that you are given for mailing), which means that Social Security must receive your appeal on the sixty-fifth day after the date on your denial notice. If you do not appeal your disability claim in a timely manner, you may have to begin the disability process over again. For that reason, after you send in your appeal, or have your disability lawyer do this for you, you may wish to call your local Social Security office to verify that your appeal has been received. Or you may simply choose to deliver your appeal paperwork to your local Social Security office directly. And in all cases, if you do not feel that you are able to handle your disability appeal paperwork, you may wish to secure a Social Security disability representative, who can be an attorney or non-attorney, to help you file your Social Security disability appeal. 
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