Do I Qualify for Social
Security Disability
in Metairie?

How Do I Qualify for Social Security Disability in the New Orleans Area?

These are the basic qualifications for Social Security Disability benefits:

• You have health problems that limit your daily functioning.
• You can’t continue in your past job because of your health.
• You also can’t switch to a different, less strenuous job.
• Your condition has lasted or is expected to last at least a year.
• For Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI): You worked and paid enough into Social Security.
• For Supplemental Security Income (SSI): You haven’t worked recently, and your income and other resources fall under certain levels.

If you can’t work, you should get benefits, right?

But you can’t just say it to Social Security. You have to prove it. You need medical records, work history details, statements from people who know you and more.

It’s not all on you to do this. Empower Disability can help you get the right pieces of the puzzle together from the very beginning of your claim.

You pay nothing for us to take an initial look at your case and let you know what to expect.

Does My Illness Meet the Social Security Disability Qualifications?

Social Security has a long list of impairments that qualify for disability benefits. It has rules for the evidence you must submit for each one.

But your diagnosis or medical condition doesn’t have to be on the list for you to get benefits.

The most important thing is that your health problem or any combination of health problems limits your ability to function.

We’ve seen people win disability benefits for all of these conditions and more:

• Anxiety
• Autism
• Back Pain
• Diabetes
• Depression
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Fibromyalgia
• Heart Failure
• Lupus
• Mental Illnesses
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Ulcerative Colitis

You can qualify for benefits with a chronic medical condition, health problems caused by an accident, lasting effects of a work injury, or anything that leaves you sidelined from work.

No matter what kind of condition you have, the essential part of your disability claim is always the medical evidence you provide and how it shows that you can’t work.

Empower Disability lawyers have decades of experience helping thousands of people in the New Orleans area and around Louisiana. Let us help you build the foundation for a new chapter in your life.

You pay no attorney fee until you win benefits.