Nolo’s Guide to Social Security Disability

The complete guide to understandingand benefiting fromthe Social Security disability system. Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability is an essential book for anyone dealing with a longterm or permanent disability. Written both for firsttime applicants and existing recipients of Social Security disability, the book demystifies the program and tells you everything you need to know about qualifying and applying for benefits, maintaining your benefits and appealing the denial of a claim. This step by step guidance allows you to match medical details of your disability to the SSA regulations that will qualify you for benefits and shows how to apply for those benefits. Additionally, the author's background in medicine gives him the distinct ability to decipher the medical portions of the SSA regulations as no one but a doctor could.