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The Top 3 Essentials You Need on a Disability Application For Mental Health Benefits
Applying for Social Security Disability benefits means knowing what improves your chances of approval.
Benefits for any Social Security disability benefits are based on several, not-too-well-known components that are needed in your application and that will be carefully considered by adjudicators. Medical consultants (MDs or PhD licensed psychologists) will also carefully scan certain aspects of an application to see if the individual has an impairment that "meets or equals a listing."
NOTE: Applicants should secure all supporting documents themselves and not depend on Social Security to do it for them. Having supporting documents with an application will greatly speed up the process of determination of benefits. This is imperative because many sources will not respond immediately to a request for documents from Social Security and the application may linger for months before it meets all of the requirements..
Applicants do not necessarily totally meet a listing (see the listings) but can basically receive benefits as "equaling a listing,” indicating that they are able to do some things but could not maintain what is expected from someone engaged in work activity that pays them a salary. This is where the concept of PPC (pace, persistence and…
