GREATEST THING YOUR ADVOCATE CAN DO - TO GET YOU PAID

There are some things Social Security disability attorneys or advocates can do.  Some things they can't do.  They can't make a massive US government agency move faster than it's inclined to move.  However, they can find and present evidence to increase your chance of approval.

There is one thing a claimant's advocate can do--that is worth everything you might ever pay him or her in fees:  find that one missing piece of evidence that will get your case approved.

If it were a murder trial, we'd call it the "smoking gun."  But Social Security adjudication is a lot more subtle.  It may be the little, quiet, easily overlooked things that win or lose.

The secret to success might be hidden away in your high school education records.  Maybe it's in your military record.  Perhaps it eludes you on page 1,273 of a doctor's record.  Or maybe it's more obvious.  Perhaps your advocate needs to send the proper form to one of your doctors and ask him or her to fill it out. 

On the day of the hearing, pieces of evidence are weighed in the balance by an administrative law judge:  the favorable and unfavorable evidence.  The judge is looking for a logical thread that runs through your story of disability--something objective that makes your testimony credible and real and believable.  Trained disability advocates are good at hunting and finding such objective threads as they sort through thousands of pages of evidence.

There are no tricks involved.  The evidence either supports your case or it doesn't.  But if the evidence is there, it's your representative's job to find it and use it convincingly.
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THE FORSYTHE FIRM
Social Security Disability Counselors
7027 Old Madison Pike - Suite 108
Huntsville, AL 35806                       FORSYTHE FIRM WEBSITE
PH (256) 799-0297