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If you are attending your Social Security disability interview, you may wish to consider what you should bring with you to the interview. Generally, Social Security sends out disability forms and medical release forms for you to complete prior to attending your interview. Social Security sends this information in the hope that you will return it prior to your interview or at the very least bring the information with you to your disability interview. Now you may be wondering what information is needed on to complete these disability forms. Social Security needs information about your disability, when you stopped work (or when your work activity had to be reduced due to your impairment), information about the types of employment you have had in the fifteen years prior to the onset of your disabling conditions or conditions, medical treatment information, educational information, and what types of testing you have had along with the medications you are currently being prescribed. As you can see this is a lot of information to provide off the top of your head, so completing the disability forms provides the Social Security claims representative with much more accurate information for your disability claim. Additionally, you should be prepared to provide Social Security with other non- disability information as well such as: marriage information, children (under the age of 19 or adult children disabled prior to the age of 22), military service, workman’s compensation, unemployment benefits, short term or long term disability monthly benefit amounts, and information about your (and/or your spouses) income and resources. Why does Social Security need information about your family including ex spouses? Social Security acquires this information to ascertain A) if you may be qualified for other Social Security benefits (spouse’s or widow’s benefits may be applicable even if you were divorced in the past) or B) if your children or spouse may qualify for benefits should you qualify for disability benefits. Most of the information required about income and resources pertains to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability claims. Many individuals qualify for this need based program even if they only qualify for benefits during the five month waiting period, in which no Social Security disability benefits are payable. Workman’s compensation affects the amount of Social Security disability benefits payable and may preclude entitlement to SSI all together. These are just some of the things you need to consider bringing to your Social Security disability interview. In fact, if you have all of this information available at your disability your interview should go well. 
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