This information may help claimants with representation, as well as claimants who are not represented by an attorney or non attorney representative. Understanding how the Social Security Disability system works can make the difference between winning or not winning the continuing disability benefits and backpay to which a person is entitled. To win a claim for ongoing and past due benefits, claimants should learn about the disability process to improve their chances of winning. |
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Thanks for sending the functional capacity forms recently. They really helped me and my physian know what to address in regards to my claim. I received notice yesterday, that my claim had been sent to the Quality Control branch for review. Does this mean it will be reversed? How likely is it, in your experience, that these get overturned? Are the cases that make it here usually approved for benefits before the quality review? I'm very glad to hear the RFC form was helpful to you. The truth is, 99% of practicing physicians have no idea what DDS and the social security administration are looking for with regard to "how to qualify for disability". RFC forms basically allow a doctor to neatly sum up all your restrictions and limitations--which is exactly the information that a disability examiner (and the dds medical consultant) is looking for. About the quality control branch: This is something called DQB (disability quality branch) and since you live in the same region I do (north carolina here), the DQB office your case went to is in Atlanta. DQB does random sampling of all cases. That is, cases that are approved AND denied by disability examiners are randomly pulled and sent to DQB to be examined under their magnifying lense. The general perception among disability examiners, however, is that DQB tends to focus more on cases marked for approval. So, you probably have a fair chance (though no guarantee) that your claim is in the approval category. How long do cases stay at DQB? It's like everything else in the disability process. There's no way to know. It could be there for weeks or even a couple months. How often are cases overturned by quality control? Though it is rare for a case file not to come back with "red marks" all over it (indicating all the i's the examiner did not dot) the majority of decisions stand as is. (To learn more about RFC forms and how to obtain an RFC form that may assist you in winning your claim, visit this site's RFC (residual functional capacity form) page.) Disability Advocates Help with Claims Free Case Evaluation |
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