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Can You Get Disability Benefits for Obesity in Ohio?

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It’s not news that obesity is extremely common. All over the place, people are selling diets, exercise plans and weight loss drugs. Anything that could help with obesity is in demand.

Most of us struggle with our weight at some time or another. But if the obesity you experience seriously hinders your everyday activities and ability to make an income, is any financial help available?

Social Security Disability benefits provide monthly income assistance and access to Medicare health coverage for people with health problems that prevent them from working.

Can you get Social Security Disability for obesity? For the purposes of applying for disability benefits, obesity functions as condition to include in a discussion of other health problems more than a basis for a disability claim itself.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) doesn’t identify obesity as a standalone disability.

The challenge is this: You must be unable to work, almost completely, to qualify for disability benefits. But millions of Americans live with obesity and still work.

About half of all adults have obesity according to the National Institutes of Health. Only a fraction of them has impairments that entirely rule out working.

To get disability benefits for obesity, you’ll need to show Social Security how your case warrants special consideration.

You can get help with that from the Ohio Social Security Disability lawyers at Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB).

We’ve helped thousands of Ohioans dealing with health problems get financial relief, and a measure of peace.

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    Getting Disability Benefits for Obesity by Combining it with other Impairments

    Disability claims often include multiple health problems.

    And it’s often a combination of health problems that leads Social Security to approve disability benefits.

    Obesity can be involved with many impairments, including ones that Social Security frequently awards disability benefits for, including:

    This is just a short list. Multiple health problems that might hinder your ability to work can also be related to obesity.

    An experienced disability lawyer knows what is likely to qualify for benefits and what is not.

    An attorney who works with the Social Security Disability system every day also knows how to show the government when there is an overlap of medical issues—even when some of the issues wouldn’t qualify for benefits on their own—that creates limitations to your ability to hold down a job.

    HNB disability attorneys can listen to your situation and lay out ways for you to claim benefits to stabilize your life. It’s free to call and talk it over with us.

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    Different Ways You Could Get Social Security Disability for Obesity

    When you’re living with obesity that impacts your daily life, you can take a few different approaches to seeking disability benefits and better economic security:

    MEETING THE SOCIAL SECURITY LISTING FOR A QUALIFYING IMPAIRMENT

    Social Security maintains a list of impairments that it recognizes as potentially forcing people off work. For each disorder, it spells out the steps and medical evidence you need to prove your claim. If you have a condition on the list, that can be the basis of your case, with obesity supporting it.

    DEMONSTRATING THAT YOU HAVE MULTIPLE IMPAIRMENTS

    As we said above, you can combine obesity with ailments that Social Security expressly recognizes as disabling to show how the total effects of your health problems rule out working.

    SHOWING THAT YOUR PHYSICAL ABILITIES ARE LIMITED

    But you don’t have to have an impairment on the official list to seek disability benefits. You can document the symptoms you deal with of any condition you have, and how they limit your everyday abilities—how much standing, walking, lifting, etc., you can do—to show you can’t work.

    For the last approach, you’ll need doctors to complete an assessment of what Social Security calls your “residual functional capacity,” or RFC.

    Skilled Social Security Disability lawyers work with doctors to make sure they provide the right information for the disability program to conclude that working everyday isn’t feasible for you.

    Talk to Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal in Ohio.

    With one of our attorneys working on your disability claim, you can rest knowing that someone highly capable is taking care of it. We’ll handle gathering medical records, making sure forms are filled out correctly and meeting deadlines.

    Let’s get you to a better position to move forward to better times.

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