This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows you how to prove a disability, and explains how your age, education, and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability.

Learn how to:

• find the disability criteria for your medical condition
• prove the severity of your disability
• appeal if you’re denied benefits
• work part time while keeping your benefits
• prepare for a Continuing Disability Review
• and more.

Plus, this book is packed with filled-in samples of all the forms you’ll need, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications.

This edition covers recent major changes, including:

• updated disability listings for over 65 medical conditions
• new rules concerning hearings and evidence, and
• changes in how Social Security considers evidence from treating doctors and other medical providers.