How to Find the Help You Need Getting Social Security Disability
Your Social Security Disability claim is nothing to take lightly. Your health and financial situation are tough. Your economic security is on the line.
How do you find someone you can trust to help you through this difficult process with both caring attention and strong advocacy?
The Arizona Social Security Disability lawyers at Slepian Ellexson recommend that you look for these qualities in a lawyer for your claim:
- Someone who has handled many Social Security Disability claims before.
- Someone who focuses on disability cases and knows the system thoroughly. (It’s a special area of law not all lawyers know.)
- Someone local in Arizona who provides personal attention and individual plans for your case, not a national disability company with a cookie-cutter approach for everyone.
- Someone who helps from beginning to end—a lawyer who guides you from your initial application through appeals.
- Someone who meets you to prepare before a disability hearing and doesn’t just drop in on the day of.
At Slepian Ellexson, these are the standards we hold, and our Arizona disability law firm has helped thousands of people for decades. Our current team of disability attorneys has 50 years of combined legal experience.
Our past clients have given us hundreds of 5-star ratings on Google.
You can trust our disability lawyers with your Social Security Disability claim and your plan for a more secure life after health setbacks.
What Kinds of Disability Benefits Can Slepian Ellexson Help You Claim?
The Phoenix disability lawyers at Slepian Ellexson help people all over Arizona with the major forms of disability benefits run by the Social Security Administration (SSA):
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI): This is likely your best option when you’ve worked for years and paid Social Security taxes but can’t work anymore due to bad health.
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI): The focus of this program is to help people with medical conditions that rule out working who also have extremely limited financial means. SSI doesn’t require a recent work history like SSDI.
- Social Security Disability for Widows or Widowers: If your spouse had the work background to qualify for SSDI before they died, and you have a qualifying disability, you can seek benefits for surviving spouses.
- Children’s SSI: This is a version of SSI benefits to help children with disabilities and their families. Your child must meet a different standard from adults to have an eligible disability. And your family must meet the SSI financial requirements.
- Disabled Adult Child Benefits: Another version of SSDI helps the adult children of parents who worked and paid a qualifying amount into the system but who themselves have never been able to work much. A “disabled adult child” must have qualifying health problems that started by early adulthood, the inability to work, and parents with qualifying coverage under Social Security.
All forms of Social Security Disability benefits come with monthly checks to help cover your everyday needs and access to either Medicare or Medicaid health care coverage.
You shouldn’t have to pay a lawyer to figure out your plan for which types of Social Security Disability benefits to seek. If any lawyer tells you otherwise, you should question that.
At Slepian Ellexson, you pay no attorney fee until you win benefits. The same should be true for any disability attorney.
And you can always start with a FREE disability claim consultation from our trusted disability attorney team.
Why Get a Social Security Disability Lawyer at All?
You’re not required to get a lawyer to seek disability benefits, but navigating the system can feel nearly impossible without having years of expertise and experience.
Slepian Ellexson lawyers know the ins and outs of Social Security Disability and can help you get ALL the benefits you need and deserve—sometimes even ones you didn’t know you’d qualify for.
Having one of our disability lawyers helping you means:
- You’ve got someone to ask how best to answer the questions on Social Security Disability forms.
- You’ve got someone to help get the right medical records into your file.
- You’ve got someone to help gather statements from friends and family about how medical issues have affected your life.
- You’ve got someone to track deadlines for you and make sure you don’t miss anything.
- You’ve got someone to file arguments with Social Security about why you should be approved for benefits.
- You’ve got someone to represent you in your disability hearing.
- You’ve got someone you can turn to with questions about the status of your disability claim at any time.
Slepian Ellexson lawyers have been trusted disability lawyers in Phoenix since 1978.
Our firm was founded by a former Social Security administrative law judge with deep inside knowledge of how this process works and a mission to help more people get through it.
We continue that mission to this day. We want to see you winning benefits and being able to live with more stability, rest more easily, and lead the fullest possible life.
