Minnesota Disability Benefits for Asthma

Minnesota Disability Benefits for Asthma

Disability for Asthma Lawyer

Disability benefits for asthma are available from the Social Security Administration (SSA) if you are unable to work. Disability for asthma can arise from several different causes. Asthma can also cause combine with other medical conditions that can serve as a basis for social security disability benefits.

The most common social security listing that is met by claimants for asthma disability is 3.03 B. This listing deals with asthma attacks. However, most claimants, even if they suffer from severe asthma, will have a difficult time even meeting this listing. That is why it is important to have good documentation and test results over an extended period of time combined with evidence of your limitations from activities of daily living forms.

Tips for Winning Asthma Disability Benefits

1. Acceptable Documentation: Asthma is a disease that has many potential causes. Again, the diagnosis is just the first step in proving that you suffer from asthma disability. The SSA gives the most weight to medically acceptable diagnosis and documentation for asthma from licensed physicians. The best-qualified doctors to diagnose and treat asthma are allergists/immunologists. Records and reports from hospitals, clinics, nurses and other treatment providers are also helpful in the SSA evaluation. Records from hospital and emergency room visits are especially important medical evidence of asthma attacks.

It is also very important to have documentation over an extended period of time. What Social Security refers to as “longitudinal evidence”. Because a person’s functional limitations from asthma can vary over time it is vital to have documentation over a sufficiently long period of time.

2. Non-medical Documentation: Documentation from family members, co-workers and others who have knowledge of the claimants functional limitations due to asthma can also be helpful in providing information regarding activities of daily living and work limitations.

3. Spirometry Test: It is very important to have documentation from the appropriate tests for social security to evaluate your disability benefits for asthma under either the asthma listing or based on the limitations caused by your symptoms. The most important test that diagnoses asthma is the spirometry test.

4. Loss of Function Evidence: This is probably the most important factor Social Security uses to determine your disability benefits for asthma. Regardless of the cause of your asthma impairment, functional loss refers to an inability to walk effectively on a sustained basis, or inability to perform fine and gross movements effectively on a sustained basis. The SSA is more concerned with how your asthma affects and limits your ability to work rather than the fact you were diagnosed with asthma.

Detailed information about your activities of daily living and functional limitations is very helpful in documenting your disability for asthma. This is an area that many claimants neglect and leads to denials for their case. Claimants should complete what are referred to as residual functional capacity (RFC) forms.

Residual Functional Capacity Forms (RFC): Residual functional capacity forms can also provide strong evidence for Social Security when they are evaluating your claim of disability benefits for asthma. At the initial, reconsideration or CDR level, the SSA will do an RFC assessment.

However, you can have your own treating doctor fill out a residual functional capacity form. This form can then be used to show the functional limitations caused by your asthma.

5. Effects of Obesity: This is another overlooked factor that can provide additional evidence of your disability for asthma. The combined effects of obesity and asthma can be greater and therefore more persuasive to social security than the effects of each individual impairment by itself.

Fields Law asthma disability lawyers will assist you in getting the medical tests you need to document your disability for asthma. If you are unable to work because of asthma we can help you apply for social security disability benefits for asthma. If you have been denied disability benefits we can appeal your case.

We offer a Free case review. Our Minnesota disability lawyers understand how frustrating it is to have asthma and be denied disability benefits when you are unable to work. There are never any fees unless we win your disability case.