Social Security Disability Insurance claims are deceptively straightforward. Many applicants believe SSDI benefits are like any other government benefits. If you meet the minimum qualifications, the checks start coming. But SSDI is different. The initial approval rate...

Unlike money growing on trees, Social Security Disability Insurance is a federally-funded program. For the most part, it’s also a state-administered program. A state Disability Determination Services officer reviews the claim and decides if the applicant is disabled...

Chances are, if your grandmother or grandfather was mentally ill, the family probably had that person committed to a mental hospital. Back then, most scientists and medical practitioners believed that institutionalization was the best option either as a temporary or...

“Maybe you should apply for disability” is perhaps the worst thing that a patient can hear from a doctor. Typically, your job defines you. Inability to work does not just take away your ability to earn money. In a very real way, it also takes away your identity....

Heermans Social Security Law Firm is pleased to share some good news - almost two years to the day after they closed, over 1,200 Social Security Administration field offices will once again be open for business. Since offices closed, employees have handled most tasks...

Social Security Disability payments are a last resort for most people. They would prefer to work if they could. But a crippling physical, mental, or emotional condition makes that impossible. But the environment is changing. About 20 percent of workers now work from...

As time goes on, no one is sure how long the worldwide coronavirus and its variants; omicron, delta etc…outbreak will last. But we are sure that the measures used to combat it around the world have been exhausting to everyone over the last couple of years. It seems...

The Heermans Social Security Disability Law Firm wants to wish everyone a happy 2021-2022 holiday season. In light of the world wide pandemic and the difficult challenges this has brought to most everyone around the world, we are also sensitive to the fact that it has...