
If you have heart disease that’s severe enough to prevent you from working, you’re under major stress. You’re dealing with the symptoms of your condition, and your income has been cut off, but you still have bills coming in, and you lost your health insurance when you lost your job.
Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits were made for people like you who have landed in a situation they never expected. If you’re approved, benefits include a monthly check, back pay from when your qualifying condition officially began, and eligibility for Medicare insurance.
So SSD benefits could help you get back on steadier financial ground, but they’re not easy to get. Over the past decade, government reports have shown that Social Security denies two-thirds of claims they receive.
Heart disease takes many forms and levels of severity. The medical evidence you get from your ongoing treatment will be vital to winning disability benefits in your particular situation.
Your chances of being approved the first time, as well as of winning benefits if you have to appeal, can increase when you have an experienced disability attorney on your side.
The Oregon Social Security Disability lawyers at Wells, Manning, Eitenmiller & Taylor can help you complete your benefits application and compile the necessary supporting documentation to give you the best possible chance of getting the benefits you deserve. We can also help you prepare an appeal if you were denied.
We have offices in Eugene-Springfield, Albany, Roseburg, Coos Bay, and Medford. We are Oregon disability lawyers with 60 years of combined experience helping people win benefits and regain stability, including many who live with heart disease.
The American Heart Institute projects that by 2035 more than 130 million adults or 45.1% of the U.S. population will have some form of cardiovascular disease.
The term “cardiovascular disease” encompasses many heart conditions. These are a few of the most common:
To qualify for disability benefits for heart disease, you must meet Social Security’s basic eligibility criteria for any condition:
Beyond that, you must qualify for benefits for your specific condition(s). Social Security has an official “Listing of Impairments” that contains a section on conditions of the cardiovascular system in adults. It explains the qualifying criteria for each type of heart disease.
If you’re wondering whether your heart condition qualifies you for disability benefits, talk to the Oregon disability lawyers at Wells, Manning, Eitenmiller & Taylor for an initial conversation about your claim at no cost to you.
We can help you get started with reclaiming your life.
Even when you know your heart condition is serious—even if you’ve been hospitalized for it before—you still have to prove the severity of your condition to Social Security.
They require evidence including results from tests like angiograms, echocardiography, and electrocardiography that measure the severity of the heart disease.
If you don’t meet the Social Security “listing” for your condition, you may still qualify for disability benefits if you can show that you are significantly impaired based on an assessment of your “Residual Functional Capacity” or RFC:
Social Security has its own language (residual functional capacity, substantial gainful activity, etc.), but an experienced Social Security Disability attorney understands what it all means—and what you need to win benefits that can improve your financial stability and your life.
If you’re in Oregon and heart disease has sidelined you from your livelihood, our disability lawyers are here to help.
Whether you’re trying to determine if you’re qualified for disability benefits, you need help filing your application, or you received a denial notice and want another chance, our law firm helps from the beginning and stays by your side.
Your health is bad. You can’t work. Your financial stability is threatened. So your head is swimming with questions. How will you get by? How does Social Security Disability work? We’ve gathered answers. See them here:
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