Wellness

Social Security Disability and Wellness

Staying healthy is the best way to prevent disability. But even if your best efforts to stay healthy do not prevent disease progression or accidents and injuries, your efforts can help you win your social security disability case.

Social Security requires that the claimant follow prescribed treatment in order to qualify for benefits.

If your medical records establish that your medical conditions result in disability, you have a better chance of winning your claim.

If your medical records suggest, however, that you would be able to work if you sought or followed treatment, you will have a tough time winning your claim.

To learn more about how Social Security evaluates a claim when the claimant is not seeing doctors see this link: Failure to follow Prescribed Treatment

If you need more information about how to access health care where you live, see this link: Indigent Health Care Facilities and other resources.