Minnesota Disability Benefits for Kidney Disease

Minnesota Disability Benefits for Kidney Disease

Disability for Kidney Disease Lawyer

Disability benefits for kidney disease are available from the Social Security Administration if you are unable to work. Disability for kidney disease can arise from multiple musculoskeletal disorders. Most kidney disease in this area is caused by diabetes and high blood pressure.

There are several important things to consider if you are applying or appealing a denial for disability benefits for kidney disease. Social security looks at the history, physical examination and laboratory evidence of your kidney disease along with evidence that your kidney disorder is worsening or has deteriorated.

Tips for Winning Kidney disease Disability Benefits

1. Acceptable Documentation: The SSA only considers medically acceptable diagnosis and documentation from medical doctors and osteopaths (M.D.’s and D.O.’s). Records and reports from physical therapists, chiropractors, holistic healers, and nurses are considered in the SSA evaluation but are not enough to establish a claimant’s disability for kidney disease without proper medical documentation.

2. Laboratory Evidence: Medically acceptable laboratory tests are extremely helpful in establishing your kidney disease disability. Findings on tests such as kidney function blood tests and kidney biopsies are considered objective signs (evidence) of abnormalities causing your kidney disease.

3. Loss of Function Evidence: This is probably the most important factor Social Security uses to determine your disability benefits for kidney disease. Regardless of the cause of your kidney disease 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 kidney disease affects and limits your ability to work rather than your particular back disorder.

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 kidney disease. At the initial, reconsideration or CDR level, the SSA will have a psychologist or psychiatrist do a mental 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 limitations caused by your depression.

In addition, it is important to let the SSA know how your daily activites are limited through non-medical sources. This information can be communicated through the claimants own statement of limitations and through family, friends and co-workers statements. Affects of kidney disease like neuropathy can cause fatigue, dizziness, and loss of balance.

3. Longitudinal Evidence: Social Security generally requires at least 3 months of treatment documentation that include laboratory findings, hospitalizations that show the progressive nature of your kidney disease.

Fields Law kidney disease disability attorneys will assist you in getting the medical tests you need to document your kidney disease disability. If you are unable to work because of chronic kidney disease we can help you apply for Social Security benefits. If you have been denied disability benefits we can appeal your case.

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