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If your initial Social Security disability or SSI claim has been denied (in other words, your disability application has been denied), you may wish to appeal your decision. In fact, since your case will most likely be denied once more if you start over with a brand new application, it is generally in your best interest to file a disability appeal. The first level of the Social Security disability appeals process is known as a reconsideration, or, more formally, as a request for reconsideration. Disability reconsiderations are really handled no differently than initial claims, or applications. After a request for a reconsideration has been made, a social security disability or SSI reconsideration is sent back to the state disability agency for another disability determination. Only this time, it will be assigned to a different disability claim examiner. Once your reconsideration arrives at the state disability agency and is assigned to a new examiner, any new medical records that are needed will be acquired. If you have no new medical records, it is likely the disability determination will be made on the evidence already in your disability file. Although a different disability examiner makes the reconsideration disability determination, the decision, unfortunately, is likely to be the same. In fact, nearly nine out of ten reconsiderations are denied by the social security administration. Why does this happen? Because the reconsideration examiner is bound by the same *Social Security disability rules* and regulations as the initial disability examiner, consequently there are very few disability decisions that are overturned at the reconsideration appeal level. Fortunately, however, at a disability hearing, the next step in the process, claimants have a much better chance of being awarded disability benefits. But to get to such a hearing, a claimant must first go through the initial claim and reconsideration steps first. 
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