Can I Get Social Security Disability for Diabetes in Wisconsin?
If Social Security Denied Your Benefits, Don’t Give Up and Don’t Delay. You Have 60 Days to Appeal.
Your diabetes has reached the point where you can’t work anymore. A monthly benefits check from Social Security Disability sure would help you and your family regain much-needed stability in a tough time.
You’re worried about paying the bills, putting food on the table and keeping a roof over your head. Your family may even be worried about the stress from job loss and financial strain making your health even worse.
Social Security recognizes diabetes as a disability that can qualify you for financial assistance—but only if your case is severe enough to meet their very strict criteria.
You tried applying for benefits, but you received a letter saying your application had been denied. Now what?
Having a disability denials attorney on your side—one with years of experience helping people get approved for benefits—can help you appeal Social Security’s decision and possibly win life-changing benefits after all.
Fast action is critical. From the time you receive Social Security’s notification of denial, you only have 60 days to file an appeal. Contact a disability attorney right away. At the Becker Law Office in Madison, this is what we do.
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Severity is Key to Determining Your Eligibility for Disability Benefits with Diabetes
Diabetes is common.
According to statistics from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, about 9 percent of adults in our state are diagnosed with diabetes. Possibly another 34 percent have prediabetes and are at risk of the disease, but many of them don’t even know it yet.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) recognizes that both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are chronic disorders that can have serious disabling complications, enough to qualify for benefits.
For disability benefits, your case of diabetes must be severe enough that you can’t work.
Of course, some people with diabetes can still work.
For many, diet adjustments, exercise, sleep habits, and medications allow them to control the symptoms and enable them to keep working with few or no changes to their jobs.
They aren’t the ones who will qualify for disability benefits.
But others have diabetes symptoms so severe that it’s impossible to work.
When diabetes is uncontrolled or poorly controlled, severe complications can arise, including light sensitivity, blindness, nerve or organ damage, digestive problems, skin sores and infections.
If diabetes has caused issues like these for you, blocking you from holding a job, you may be eligible for disability benefits.
Do you want to know where you stand? It doesn’t cost anything to have our disability law team listen to your situation and give you an idea of what to expect from a disability claim.
Top 4 Reasons to Get an Experienced Disability Attorney for Your Diabetes Claim
Appealing your denial of benefits for diabetes will be much more complicated than your initial application.
Your chances of a successful appeal can be higher if you have an experienced disability appeals lawyer on your side. Here’s what they will bring to the table:
- They’ll help prepare the evidence: An attorney can help with gathering and organizing medical test results, reports from your doctor, your diet and exercise plans, details of the medications you take and other evidence.
- They’ll help get you prepared: If you’re scheduled to testify before a Social Security administrative law judge, you’ll need to be ready to help the judge understand how your diabetes limits your daily activities.
- They’ll bring legal knowledge: A skilled disability attorney has the education, training and experience to build compelling legal arguments and cross-examine experts who testify about your case.
- They know the Social Security Disability system. And you want a lawyer who practices this particular kind of law, because it has its own rules and steps. A lawyer who focuses on disability cases, for example, understands how you could combine diabetes with other health problems, factor in your age, or use other approaches to build a stronger case for benefits.
Best of all, you pay no attorney fee until you win benefits.
The Becker Law Office has helped thousands of people in Wisconsin appeal their disability denials.
If you’ve been denied benefits that could help you cover your expenses and move forward with your life, it’s time to get in touch with a disability lawyer.