Social security benefits are designed to financially assist qualified citizens with shelter, food, and medical expenses if the citizens suffer from certain medical conditions that render them unable to work or impair their ability to carry out daily functions.
These benefits are closely guarded by the Social Security Administration and require a long application process that includes tests, paperwork, appointments, and even courtroom appearances. Here, you will find a list of four types of medical conditions that qualify you for social security.
Mental Disorders
Topping the list of medical conditions that qualify you for social security benefits are mental disorders. Keep in mind that not all mental disorders make you a qualified applicant. You have to be suffering from a severely debilitating mental disorder that renders you unable to work or care for yourself in order to meet certain requirements set forth by the Social Security Administration.
The qualifying list of mental disorders includes autism, intellectual disability, schizophrenia, and depression.
Sensory Disorders
A sensory disorder is a medical condition that severely impairs one or more of the main senses that you use to function on a daily basis. This mostly applies to a loss or impairment of your eyesight or of your hearing.
If you’re blind in both eyes, you can usually receive benefits without difficulty. If you’re only partially blind, the Social Security Administration will test you based on the vision in your good eye to determine your qualification status.
Should you apply for social security due to a hearing impairment, the SSA will require tests to see how low of a decibel you can hear. They will also test your ability to hear spoken words and repeat them. Your qualification status will depend on the results of one of these two tests.
Immune System Disorders
If you’re unlucky enough to be born with or contract an immune system disorder, you may find yourself qualified to receive Social Security benefits. Some immune system disorders are considered to be a guaranteed acceptance of Social Security benefits.
Some of these include lupus, Crohn’s Disease, severe scleroderma, Addison’s disease, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, severe complications from Type I or Type II diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and HIV/AIDS.
Other immune system disorders that either don’t qualify you for Social Security benefits or require certain conditions to be met are sarcoidosis, Sjogren’s syndrome, Graves’ disease, celiac disease, and primary biliary cirrhosis.
Neurological Disorders
Whether developed as you aged or in the womb, there are certain neurological disorders that will usually qualify you to begin receiving Social Security benefits. Some of these neurological disorders are brain tumors, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and Parkinson’s disease.
Applying for Social Security benefits can be a difficult and arduous process that may be too much for a single individual. You’ll have a higher chance of success of overcoming rejections when applying for benefits if you hire a lawyer from the Law Offices of Goldberg & Ibarra or a similar law firm in your particular area.
