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Questionable Disability Denials Are Not Always About the Rules
The Social Security Administration has rules for obtaining disability benefits, but these rules do not always hold sway.
As disabled workers, disabled widows or widowers, or handicapped adult children, 9,243,999 persons were receiving Social Security disability benefits as of December 2021. 85.2 percent of the participants were disabled workers, 12.4 percent were adult children with disabilities, and 2.4 percent were widows or widowers with disabilities.
Here is a listing of all of the psychological claims categories currently found in the Social Security disability manuals. I have covered all of this in a book I wrote years ago that is available on Amazon in both e-book and paperback.
Many times, people approach Social Security Disability applications for psychological or mental problems with tremendous anxiety and concern because they see them as an arduous process. The worries I have encountered when talking to people I have advised to apply for benefits range from thinking they will face something more stressful than not having enough money to cover their everyday expenses to thinking they will be turned down (and humiliated) to a real fear of the examiner and what they will have to go through.
