If your disability reconsideration is denied

If the reconsideration you filed after being denied for social security disability or SSI disability is also denied, then you need to file the next appeal.

The next appeal in the social security administration's disability appeal process, of course, is the request for a hearing before an administrative law judge, and it is at this level that claimants who have been denied previously will have their best chance of winning disability benefits.

How many disability reconsiderations get denied? The statistics are different for each state, but approximately eighty-five percent of all reconsiderations that are filed get denied.

One question that gets asked every now and then is this: "If so many reconsiderations get denied, why should a person bother to file one?" Because, ultimately, the best way to get approved for disability (for claimants who have been previously denied) is to get a disability hearing before an administrative law judge.

However, you can't get to a disability hearing until you've gone through the reconsideration or review phase of the disability appeal process.




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