Fink Rosner Ershow-Levenberg represents claimants seeking Social Security Disability benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for long-term and permanent disability. Workers who can no longer engage in substantial gainful activity due to severe, lasting, medically determinable impairments that prevent them from performing their prior occupation may be eligible for disability income benefits through Social Security and for Medicare for health insurance.

Disabled people who are not insured under Social Security can apply for SSI and Medicaid. Applications are filed at the local Social Security office.

Claimants seeking Social Security Disability or SSI or who need to appeal the denial of their claim should seek legal guidance to prepare for the administrative hearings and to maneuver through the bureaucratic maze of paperwork. We represent the claimant at the following steps of the administrative process:

• Initial Applications

• Reconsideration

• Hearing at Office of Disability Adjudication & Review before an Administrative Law Judge

• The Appeals Council

We assist you in collecting the necessary medical records and physicians' opinion reports. We prepare and argue your case for you. We help you prepare for your testimony at the ODAR.

If you are not insured under the Social Security disability system, we will represent you in your effort to obtain benefits under SSI (Supplemental Security Income) and Medicaid. We will prepare Special Needs Trusts ("d(4)(a) Trusts") to preserve your assets and expedite that process.

Call us as well regarding Termination of Benefits or alleged Overpayment problems.

We participate in NOSSCR, the National Organization of Social Security Claims Representatives, a national organization of over 4,000 attorneys committed to providing high quality representation for claimants, to maintaining a system of full and fair adjudication for every Social Security and SSI claimant, and to advocating for beneficial change in the disability determination and adjudication process.

OTHER RESOURCES

Litigating a Childhood Social Security Disability Claim, by Linda S. Ershow-Levenberg, Esq.
In some cases, children who are disabled can become eligible for disability benefits from Social Security if they are the qualified dependent of an insured individual.

www.ssa.gov The official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration
Online services include apply for Social Security, apply for SSI, apply for Medicare, application status, appeals, estimate your benefits, find out if you qualify or find your local Social Security office.