Veteran Disability Benefit Insights

Generally, people who are receiving disability assistance have a disabling impairment that keeps them from working. However, a person receiving SSD assistance may still be able to work if they feel up to it, and still not be disqualified from receiving payments.

The standard for eligibility for Social Security Disability benefits or Supplemental Security Income is not typically based on a specific medical condition. Eligibility is determined around having a medically diagnosed condition which makes a person unable to earn a “substantial” income through work.

Watch this video by dedicated Buffalo disability attorney Christopher Atkinson, Esq. where he explains how much it costs to hire an attorney to file a VA claim. Whenever people call, and I’m assessing their claim, we always talk about how much it costs to hire a VA disability attorney. What we charge is a reasonable [...]

Watch this video by dedicated Buffalo disability attorney Christopher Atkinson, Esq. as he explains an aggravated service connection. An aggravated service-connected condition is when you enter into service and have an injury that happened prior to service. Let’s say you were 15 and you hurt your knee playing softball. It heals. And you enter into [...]

Generally, a veteran seeking disability benefits from the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) must have been discharged from service under conditions other than dishonorable. Therefore, if a veteran is discharged in the following classifications, he or she is likely to receive benefits if otherwise qualified: under honorable conditions, general, and honorable discharge.

The disability claim process is stressful and part of the reason for that is because you are responsible for providing proof of your disability. You might be wondering, then, what do you need to prove in order to successfully make a disability claim? In this video, we address that topic.

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a government program that pays benefits to people who are too disabled to work. If you are HIV-positive, and you have medical problems related to your HIV-status that prevent you from working, you may be eligible for SSDI benefits.

While learning that the VA denied your disability claim can make things more stressful, you are not without help. If you have been denied veterans disability benefits contact our offices today at 877.236.7366 to schedule a free consultation to discuss your options.

In this video, we discuss receiving both Veteran’s disability benefits and Social Security disability benefits at the same time.

Applying for benefits for an illness or injury that happened as a result of a person’s service in the military is not as straightforward as one may expect. The process is sometimes complicated by backlogs in processing claims.

Disability benefits obtained through the Social Security Administration and disability benefits obtained through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), are not mutually exclusive benefit systems.

When someone thinks of veterans’ disability compensation or benefits, he may think that the benefits only apply for physical or psychological injuries that were sustained in war.