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Can my Social Security Disability Benefits be garnished to pay child support payments?

Friday, June 25th, 2010

To answer this question, you must determine what type of Social Security Disability benefits you are currently receiving. The Social Security Administration offers two types of disability benefits: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

Supplemental Security Income or SSI is a social security disability benefit given to certain qualifying individuals including: the aged, blind and disabled who meet certain income and resource levels. Income and resource levels change each year and can be found on the Social Security Administration’s website.  Supplemental Security Income is given to these individuals for clothing, housing and food expenses.

The federal government funds Supplemental Security Income through general tax revenues not the Social Security Trust Fund.  The federal government treats Supplemental Security Income as a public welfare benefit similar to food stamps and does not consider Supplemental Security Income or SSI to be income for the purposes of child support payments. Therefore, the federal government does not allow Supplemental Security Income benefits to be garnished.

In contrast, Social Security Disability Insurance or SSDI was money paid into the Social Security Trust Fund through employment taxes based on a percentage of the employee’s earnings. The goal of the Social Security Trust Fund is to allow for the replacement of income for certain employees who become disabled and are unable to work.

According to the federal government, the Social Security Disability Income or SSDI benefit is considered a substitute for lost wages and is eligible to be garnished for child support payments. One benefit of Social Security Disability Insurance, however, is children of qualifying disabled workers who receive Social Security Disability Insurance payments may be eligible to receive Social Security Disability Insurance or SSDI benefits until a certain age (18 under most circumstances) and these SSDI payments may be subtracted from the child support amount owed.

If you have questions regarding your Social Security Disability benefit or the garnishment of you Social Security Disability benefits to pay for child support, it is important to contact a Social Security Disability Attorney who can answer all of your questions. Social Security Disability Attorneys can also answer questions about applying for Social Security Disability Benefits or help you recover any Social Security Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income benefits you may have lost.

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Anhidrosis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, June 14th, 2010
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Anhidrosis, which is sometimes called hypohidrosis, is the inability to perspire normally. This inability to sweat properly can threaten your life.

Your body cannot cool itself when you do not perspire properly. This can lead to overheating and heatstroke, which can be a fatal condition.

There are two types of sweat glands in your skin, apocrine and eccrine glands. Your apocrine glands are located in parts of your body where there are many hair follicles like your armpits, groin and scalp. Eccrine glands are located over most of your body. They lead directly to the surface of your skin.

Various amounts of these sweat glands stop functioning like they should with anhidrosis. This results in your body not being able to cool itself properly. This can be caused by several different things. These are:

  • Nerve damage – Injuries to your nerves can affect how these sweat glands operate.
  • Dehydration – In serious cases of dehydration, interference takes place with your ability to perspire.
  • Certain medications – Several prescription medications reduce sweating like antipsychotics and anticholinergics.
  • Genetic factors – Children born with the inherited condition called hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia have little or no sweat glands.
  • Skin damage – Certain kinds of skin damage like severe burns can hurt your sweat glands.

Mild anhidrosis may not be noticed. The hallmark indication of anhidrosis is little or no perspiration. This lack of sweat can take place:

  • In scattered groups
  • Over a large portion of your body
  • In one single area of your body.

Because of this lack of perspiration, parts of your body may try to make up for this by overproducing sweat. This means that you may perspire profusely in one area of your body and have little or no sweat in another area of your body.

Anhidrosis can be a primary condition, which means it occurs on its own. Or, it can be a sign or symptom of another problem like psoriasis or diabetes.

Your or a loved one may be troubled with anhidrosis. Ordinarily, this is not a condition that would qualify you to be eligible to receive Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. However, if you have this condition along with other conditions or have complications resulting from anhidrosis, you may qualify for these benefits. The disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com is the one who can best advise you in this matter.

You or your loved one may have already filed for financial help from the Social Security Administration by filing for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by anhidrosis and/or complications arising from or along with it? Were you or your loved one denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you appeal the denial, remember this. People with a disability attorney representing them like the one at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those without a lawyer.

Do not hesitate. Contact us so that we can put you in touch with a disability attorney today.

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Glycogen Storage Diseases and Receiving Social Security Disability

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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Glycogen serves as the primary fuel reserve for the energy needs of your body. Glycogen storage diseases are genetically linked metabolic disorders that involve the enzymes regulating glycogen metabolism. They affect the processing of glycogen synthesis or breakdown within muscles, liver and other cell types.

There are more than 10 types of glycogen storage diseases. The most common forms are Types I, II, III, and IV. These are thought to account for more than 90% of all cases.

The types of glycogen storage diseases include:

  • Type Ia, or von Gierke’s disease may affect you with an enlarged fatty liver, elevated levels of lactate, lipids and uric acid in your blood, low blood sugar, impairment in growth, delaying of puberty and bones weakened by osteoporosis. Gout, liver cancer, liver tumors and chronic renal disease may develop.
  • Type Ib is similar to Type Ia. In addition, your immune system is weakened and there is the danger of bacterial infections like gum and mouth infections, pneumonia and inflammatory bowel disease.
  • Type II, or Pompe’s disease or acid maltase deficiency, is classified according to the age of onset.
  • Type III, or Cori’s disease has effects that are similar to Type 1a. It also causes an enlarged heart, muscles prone to wasting and high levels of lipids in your blood.
  • Type IV, or Andersen’s disease is usually fatal to infants.
  • Type V, or McArdle’s disease may affect you with muscle weakness and cramping caused by exercise and burgundy-colored urine after exercise.
  • Type VI, or Hers’ disease may affect you by causing low blood sugar, mildly retarded growth and an enlarged liver.
  • Type VII, or Tarui’s disease has effects that are similar to type V, but also include increased levels of uric acid and anemia.
  • Types VIII and XI have symptoms similar to Type VI.
  • ·Type IX has effects that are similar to Type VI.
  • Type X has effects that are like Type VI and IX.

You or a loved one may have a glycogen storage disease. It may be the reason you or your loved one is disabled and unable to work.

If this is true, you or your loved one may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may have applied for that help from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by a glycogen storage disease. Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one is going to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something that you need to consider. People who are represented and aided by a disability attorney like the one you will find here are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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Dermatomyositis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Dermatomyositis is a type of connective tissue disease. It is related to polymyositis. Dermatomyositis is an uncommon disease characterized by muscle weakness and a distinctive skin rash.

It is a type of inflammatory muscle disease. Dermatomyositis is one of a group of conditions called inflammatory myopathies. Myopathies are abnormal conditions or diseases of your muscles.

“Derma” means skin. “Myo” means “muscles” in Greek. “Itis” means “inflamed.” When you put this together you see that dermatomyositis is muscle inflammation that is accompanied by skin-related problems.

Dermatomyositis can develop at any age. Usually, it affects children between 5 and 15 years of age or adults in their late 40s to early 60s. Women are more likely to have dermatomyositis than men. Dermatomyositis is a disease that usually develops over a period of weeks or months.

Dermatomyositis may affect you by causing:

  • Progressive muscle weakness – This happens usually in your thighs, hips, upper arms, shoulders and neck. These are the muscles closest to your torso or trunk. This muscle weakness is symmetrical. It affects both the right and left sides of your body.
  • A dusky red or violet-colored rash – This is usually on your knees, around your nails, knuckles, elbows, back, chest, face and eyelids. These areas are usually more sensitive to exposure to the sun.

There are other ways that dermatomyositis may affect you. These include:

  • Fever, weight loss and fatigue
  • Gastrointestinal infections and ulcers (more in children)
  • Hardened calcium deposits under your skin (also more common in children)
  • Dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing)
  • Muscle tenderness or pain
  • Lung problems

The muscle weakness and skin rash usually develop at the same time. Sometimes, however, the skin rash may begin a few weeks before the muscle weakness. Your skin may become hard and thick like scleroderma in some children with dermatomyositis.

The condition is called sclerodermatomyositis when this occurs. The weakness in your muscles can cause you to have problems climbing stairs, in getting out of chairs, working with your arms over your head, holding your head up or brushing your hair.

Dermatomyositis and/or complications resulting from or along with it may be the reason why you or a loved one is unable to work. It may be the cause of your disability.

You or your loved one may need assistance. You may need financial help.

Have you or your loved one applied for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by dermatomyositis and/or complications resulting from or along with this disease? Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one is going to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, remember this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than those people who do not have a lawyer.

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Mesothelioma and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Asbestos is a natural mineral product. It has been an extremely valuable product in manufacturing because of its resistance to corrosion and heat. In the past, it has been used extensively in products like fire-retardant materials, insulation, cement and some vinyl floor tiles.

The United States government began to regulate the use of asbestos and asbestos products in the middle of the 70s. Today, the use and handling of asbestos is strictly regulated.

The reason for government regulation is that heavy, long-term exposure to asbestos before this regulation has led to serious breathing and lung problems. One such problem is asbestosis.

Another is mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos. Malignant cells develop in your mesothelium. This is a protective lining that covers most of your body’s internal organs.

Mesothelioma is divided into different types according to which part of your mesothelium is affected. Some of these are:

  • Pleural malignant mesothelioma – This affects the tissue that surrounds your lungs. This is the most common form of the disease.
  • Mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis – The lining around you testicles is where this type develops.
  • Peritoneal mesothelioma – This type occurs in the tissue in your abdomen.
  • Pericardial mesothelioma – The tissue surrounding your heart is where the disease develops.

The effects of mesothelioma depend on the part of your mesothelium that is affected. Some of the effects of peritoneal mesothelioma are:

  • Change in your bowel habits like more constipation or diarrhea
  • Unexplained weight loss
  • Abdominal pain
  • Lumps of tissue in your abdomen
  • Abdominal swelling.

The effects of pleural mesothelioma include:

  • Chest pain under your rib cage
  • Unexplained weight loss
  • Pleurisy (painful breathing)
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dry cough
  • Painful coughing
  • Unusual lumps of tissue under the skin of your chest.

The effects of mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis and pericardial mesothelioma are not clear. There is little information on these forms because they are so rare. A mass on your testicle may be the first indication of mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis. Chest pains or problems breathing may be indications of pericardial mesothelioma.

You or a loved one may have mesothelioma. This disorder may be the cause of you or your loved one’s disability. It may be the reason why you need financial help.

Have you or your loved one applied for that financial assistance from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by mesothelioma? Were you or your loved one denied?

If you or your loved one plans on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, remember this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one at Social Security Home are approved more often than those people who are not represented by a lawyer.

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A Brain AVM and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Arteriovenous malformation is what the letters AVM stands for. An AVM is a tangle of poorly formed and abnormal veins and arteries (blood vessels). An AVM has a higher rate of bleeding than normal blood vessels.

A brain AVM is when this occurs in your brain. It is an abnormal connection between veins and arteries in your brain that disrupts the normal flow of blood between these blood vessels.

Fortunately, a brain AVM is extremely rare. They happen in less than 1% of the general population of the United States.

Researchers believe that a brain AVM takes place during the development of a baby inside its mother’s womb. However, researchers do not know why this happens to some babies but not others.

There are risk factors that may increase your likelihood of having a brain AVM. Anyone can be born with a brain AVM, but boys are more likely to have one than girls. Signs and symptoms are more likely to happen before the age of 50. This is because a brain AVM tends to stay stable once you reach middle age. Pregnancy may begin or cause signs and symptoms to get worse in women because there is an increase in blood volume and flow during this time.

A brain AVM many times does not cause any signs or symptoms until it ruptures, and there is hemorrhage (bleeding) in your brain. There are several signs and symptoms that may be an indication that you have a brain AVM. Some of these are:

  • Loss of consciousness or collapse
  • Sudden onset of a severe headache
  • Seizures
  • Some type of motor paralysis
  • Sensory disturbance
  • Vomiting
  • Nausea
  • A pulsing noise in your head
  • Severe unsteadiness
  • A whooshing sound that can be heard when your skull is examined with a stethoscope
  • Numbness or weakness that is progressive
  • Problems with your speech
  • An inability to understand others.

You or a loved one may have a brain AVM. This malformation and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be why you or your loved one is disabled. A brain AVM may be why you are not able to work.

If this is your situation, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may have decided to apply for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits. In fact, you may have already done this and been denied by the Social Security Administration.

If you or your loved one plans on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something for you to consider. People who have a disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.

Please do not delay. Contact the disability lawyer at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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Osteomyelitis and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Osteomyelitis is the medical term that is used to refer to infection in a bone. Infections can start in one of your bones if some kind of trauma exposes your bone to germs. Infections can also reach one of your bones by spreading from a tissue that is close by or going through your blood stream.

Osteomyelitis usually affects the long bones in your body. These are your upper arm bone or your leg bones. Osteomyelitis can also affect your pelvis and spine.

Osteomyelitis can either be an acute or chronic condition in adults. In children it is usually an acute condition. Osteomyelitis affects around 2 out of every 10,000 people in the United States.

Osteomyelitis can be caused by a variety of bacteria and fungi. The most common is staphylococcus aureus. Other causes include:

  • Bacteria in your bloodstream that gets in a localized area of your bone
  • A minor trauma that can result in a blood clot around your bone and then a secondary infection
  • A soft tissue infection or a chronic open wound
  • Any kind of open injury to a bone where it pierces your skin
  • An infection from another place in your body that spreads to your bone through your blood stream.

There are several signs and symptoms that may be an indication that you have osteomyelitis. Some of these are:

  • Fever that is abrupt
  • Chills
  • Nausea that is a result of being sick with an infection
  • Sweating excessively
  • Tenderness and/or pain in the affected bone
  • Swelling of your legs, feet or ankles
  • Malaise (general feeling of sickness, discomfort or uneasiness)
  • Changes in your gait (the way you walk)
  • Warmth, redness and swelling in the affected bone
  • Lower back pain if your spine is affected
  • The drainage of pus through your skin
  • Lethargy or irritability in young children
  • Chronic fatigue.

You or a loved one may have been diagnosed with osteomyelitis. This condition and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be why you are not able to work. It may be causing you or your loved one’s disability.

Because of this, you may need assistance. You may need financial help.

You or your loved one may have applied for the financial assistance that you need by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by osteomyelitis and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it. Were you or your loved one denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one is considering appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, always remember this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer.

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Adrenocortical Carcinoma and Receiving Social Security Disability

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Adrenocortical carcinoma is a cancer that begins in your adrenal cortex. This is the outside layer of your adrenal gland.

Adrenocortical carcinoma is also referred to by other names. It is also called adrenal cancer, cancer of the adrenal cortex, adrenocortical cancer and adrenal carcinoma.

Fortunately, adrenocortical carcinoma is rare. It affects one or two people per one million in population.

It usually develops in adults who are in their 30s and 40s. There is also a childhood form of the disease that usually occurs in children under 5.

Adrenocortical carcinoma may not cause any signs or symptoms in its early stage. As it progresses, there are many different signs and symptoms that this disease may produce depending on whether you are a boy or girl, man or woman and which hormone this cancer is producing too much of. Adrenocortical carcinoma can cause too much testosterone, cortisol, aldosterone or estrogen.

If there is too much testosterone in women:

  • Balding
  • No menstrual periods
  • Fine hair growth on your arms, upper back or face
  • Deepening voice
  • Acne
  • Men making too much testosterone usually have no symptoms.

If there is too much cortisol:

  • A lump of fat on the back of your neck
  • High blood pressure
  • Fine hair growth on your arms, upper back or face
  • Round, red, full face
  • High blood sugar
  • Weight gain in your neck, face and the trunk of your body with thin legs and arms
  • Muscle weakness
  • Deepening of your voice and swelling of your breasts or sex organs in both women and men.

If there is too much aldosterone:

  • Frequent urination
  • High blood pressure
  • A feeling of thirst
  • Muscle cramps or weakness.

If there is too much estrogen in women:

  • Menstrual bleeding in those who have passed through menopause
  • Irregular menstrual periods in younger women.

If there is too much estrogen in men:

  • Impotence
  • Growth of breast tissue
  • Lower sex drive.

You or your child with disability may have adrenocortical carcinoma. It may be why you are disabled and unable to work.

Do you need help because of this disability? Do you need financial assistance?

Have you applied for that financial help from the Social Security Administration for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits for you or your child with disability because of the disability caused by adrenocortical carcinoma? Were you or your child with disability turned down?

If you are planning on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration, here is something that you always need to remember. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people without a lawyer.

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Achalasia and Receiving Social Security Disability Benefits

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Your esophagus is made up of three functional parts. The top part is the upper esophageal sphincter. This is a specialized ring of muscle that separates your esophagus from your throat. It stays closed most of the time to keep food from backing up from the main part of your esophagus into your throat. This main part is called the body of your esophagus. The last part of your esophagus is the lower esophageal sphincter. This is a specialized ring of muscle at the junction of the esophagus with your stomach. Like the upper esophageal sphincter, the lower esophageal sphincter stays closed most of the time to keep food in your stomach from backing up into the body of your esophagus.

When your esophagus is working properly it allows food to pass from one section to the next by what is called a peristaltic wave. When food reaches the lower esophageal sphincter, it is open and allows food to pass into your stomach.

Achalasia is a rare disease of the muscle of your esophagus (swallowing tube). The word, “achalasia” means “failure to relax”. It involves the inability of your lower esophageal sphincter to open and let food pass into your stomach.

The most common effect that achalasia will have on you is to cause you to have a hard time swallowing (dysphagia). You may feel like food is sticking in your chest after you swallow it. This problem happens with both solid and liquid food. This is a consistent ongoing problem that happens with virtually every meal that you eat.

Other effects caused by achalasia are:

  • Regurgitation of food trapped in your esophagus
  • Coughing and choking if food enters your throat
  • Aspiration pneumonia can occur if food enters your windpipe (trachea) and lung
  • Loss of weight because of the problem with swallowing
  • Chest pains that are like heartburn or pressure on your sternum.

As you can see, if these effects continue, or you experience them in conjunction with other conditions are complications; you may be unable to work or hold a job. Achalasia and/or other conditions and complications along with it may be the cause of your disability.

You may be looking for help if this is the case. You may be searching for financial help.

Have you applied for that financial assistance from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by achalasia and/or complications along with it? Were you denied?

You may plan on appealing the denial by the Social Security Administration. If this is what you decide to do, think about this. You may need a disability attorney like the one at socialsecurityhome.com to help you in this process. The reason this is true is because people who are represented by a disability lawyer are approved more often than those people without an attorney.

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Allergic Vasculitis and Receiving Social Security Disability

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Vasculitis is a wide, sweeping term that refers to a group of uncommon diseases that are evidenced by inflammation of your blood vessels. Your vascular system refers to the blood vessels of your body. Your blood vessels are composed of arteries that carry oxygen-rich blood to your body’s tissues, and veins that return oxygen-depleted blood from your tissues to your lungs for oxygen. Vasculitis is marked by inflammation in and damage to the walls of various blood vessels in your body.

Each one of this group of diseases is characterized by distribution of blood vessel involvement, certain patterns of particular organ involvement and laboratory test abnormalities. As a group, these diseases are referred to as vasculitides.

Allergic Vasculitis is one of the many types of vasculitis. It is hypersensitivity to a foreign substance or drug. This results in damage and inflammation to the blood vessels of your skin.

Fortunately, allergic vasculitis is a rare disease. It affects about 6 in every 100,000 people in the United States. Most of the people with this disease are over the age of 15.

Allergic vasculitis is also referred to by other names. It is also called hypersensitivity vasculitis, leukocytoclastic vasculitis and cutaneous vasculitis.

As mentioned earlier, allergic vasculitis is caused by an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity to a drug or another foreign substance. However, even with a complete medical history, no one knows what causes this hypersensitivity or allergic reaction to take place.

There are several signs and symptoms that you may have with allergic vasculitis. Some of these are:

  • Open sores with dead tissue (necrotic ulcers)
  • Skin lesions that are usually found on your buttocks, trunk or legs
  • Hives (urticaria) that may remain for more than a day
  • Blisters on your skin
  • The appearance of red or purple discolorations on your skin.

You or a loved one may be suffering with allergic vasculitis. This disease and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with it may be the reason for you or your loved one’s disability. It may be why you need financial help.

Where will the financial assistance that you need come from? Who can and will help you?

Have you or your loved one thought about applying for the financial assistance that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability caused by allergic vasculitis and/or complications resulting from or other conditions along with this disease? Have you or your loved one already taken this step and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

If you or your loved one has decided to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration, you need to remember this. People who are represented by a disability attorney like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com are approved more often than people who do not have a disability lawyer.

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