We Represent Everyone — Social Security Disability Help for All
When illness or injury renders you unable to work, the financial and emotional burden can feel overwhelming. Social Security Disability benefits exist to provide critical support during these challenging times, yet navigating the complex application and appeals process often proves frustrating and confusing. At its core, the Social Security Disability system should serve everyone equally—regardless of your background, the nature of your disability, or your life circumstances. Unfortunately, statistics reveal a sobering reality: in 2024, 62% of disability claims were denied initially, with only 38% receiving approval. This means that for every ten people who apply, approximately six will receive a denial letter despite potentially having legitimate disabling conditions.
The encouraging news? These denials don’t represent the end of the road. With proper legal representation and thorough documentation, many initially denied claimants ultimately secure the benefits they deserve. Our commitment is simple: we represent everyone seeking Social Security Disability benefits, fighting tirelessly to ensure that all disabled individuals receive fair treatment under the law.
Understanding the Two Pillars of Social Security Disability
The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two distinct but related disability benefit programs, each serving different populations with unique eligibility requirements.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
SSDI operates as an insurance program funded through payroll taxes collected under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). To qualify for SSDI, applicants must demonstrate they have earned sufficient work credits through employment covered by Social Security. Generally, workers earn one credit for each quarter year they work and pay Social Security taxes, with most individuals needing 40 total credits (equivalent to 10 years of work) to qualify for benefits.
However, younger workers may qualify with fewer credits. The SSA uses a formula based on your age at disability onset to determine how many credits you need. As of December 2023, 8,538,030 individuals were receiving SSDI benefits, including 7,224,442 disabled workers, 197,303 disabled widows, and 1,116,285 disabled adult children.
The average SSDI benefit for a disabled worker as of February 2025 was $1,581 a month, equating to $18,972 annually—a sum that, while modest, provides essential income for individuals unable to engage in substantial gainful activity.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
SSI represents a needs-based program designed for disabled individuals with limited income and resources, regardless of work history. Unlike SSDI, SSI doesn’t require work credits but instead focuses on financial need. For 2025, the monthly maximum federal SSI benefit for an individual increased to $967, while benefits payable to eligible couples rose to $1,450 monthly.
SSI eligibility requires that applicants meet strict resource limits. Currently, individuals cannot have more than $2,000 in countable resources, while couples face a $3,000 limit. Many disabled individuals receive both SSDI and SSI benefits concurrently if their SSDI payment falls below the SSI threshold and they meet the program’s financial requirements.
The Legal Definition of Disability: Meeting the SSA's Strict Standard
Both SSDI and SSI use the same rigorous definition of disability. The SSA employs a five-step sequential evaluation process to determine eligibility:
Step One: Are you engaging in Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA)? For 2025, the SGA amount for persons with disabilities other than blindness is $1,620 per month, while for persons who are blind, the amount is $2,700 per month. If your earnings exceed these thresholds, you’re generally ineligible for benefits.
Step Two: Is your condition “severe”? The SSA must determine whether your medical condition significantly limits your ability to perform basic work activities.
Step Three: Does your condition meet or equal a Listed Impairment? The SSA maintains a comprehensive “Blue Book” of impairments that automatically qualify for benefits if your condition matches the specific criteria.
Step Four: Can you perform your past relevant work? Recent regulatory changes reduced the time period the SSA considers when evaluating past work from 15 years to 5 years, potentially making it easier for some claimants to qualify.
Step Five: Can you perform any other work existing in significant numbers in the national economy? At this final step, the SSA considers your Residual Functional Capacity (RFC), age, education, and work experience to determine if you can adjust to other work.
This stringent evaluation process helps explain why initial denial rates remain so high. Even legitimate claims fail when medical documentation doesn’t adequately demonstrate functional limitations or when applicants struggle to articulate how their conditions prevent them from working.
The Spectrum of Qualifying Disabilities: Physical and Mental Conditions
Physical Disabilities
The range of physical impairments qualifying for benefits includes:
Musculoskeletal Disorders: Musculoskeletal disorders affecting the back and spine, knees, hips, shoulders, and other parts of the body account for 17% of disability claims. These conditions include degenerative disc disease, severe arthritis, spinal stenosis, and major joint dysfunction.
Cardiovascular Conditions: Chronic heart failure, coronary artery disease, recurrent arrhythmias, and peripheral arterial disease can render individuals unable to sustain work activity.
Respiratory Impairments: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and cystic fibrosis may qualify when they significantly limit breathing capacity.
Neurological Disorders: Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and stroke-related impairments frequently prevent sustained employment.
Cancer: Many malignancies qualify under the SSA’s Compassionate Allowances program, expediting benefits for applicants with severe diagnoses.
Immune System Disorders: HIV/AIDS, lupus, and other autoimmune conditions may qualify when they produce severe functional limitations.
In December 2023, of the 8,538,030 SSDI beneficiaries, 298,512 were receiving benefits based on injuries, demonstrating that traumatic injuries leading to permanent disability also qualify for benefits.
Mental Health Disabilities
Mental impairments represent an increasingly recognized category of qualifying conditions:
Affective Disorders: Major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and persistent depressive disorder may qualify when they produce marked limitations in functioning.
Anxiety Disorders: Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and social anxiety disorder qualify when severe and persistent.
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: These conditions often qualify due to their profound impact on thought processes, perception, and functioning.
Intellectual Disorders: Intellectual disability documented before age 22 qualifies for benefits.
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Both children and adults with autism may qualify based on social interaction deficits and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: PTSD, particularly among veterans and first responders, increasingly receives recognition as a qualifying condition.
Cognitive Impairments: Dementia, traumatic brain injuries, and other conditions affecting memory, concentration, and executive functioning may qualify.
Each mental health claim requires comprehensive psychiatric and psychological evaluations, treatment records demonstrating ongoing care, and detailed functional assessments showing how the condition prevents sustained employment.
The Harsh Reality: Why So Many Claims Face Denial
Initial Application Stage
At the initial application stage in 2024, a staggering 62% of applications were denied, with only 38% receiving approval. These denials occur for various reasons:
Insufficient Medical Evidence: Many applicants lack adequate documentation of their conditions. The SSA requires objective medical findings, not just symptom complaints. Laboratory results, imaging studies, clinical findings from examinations, and opinions from treating physicians all contribute to a complete medical record.
Failure to Follow Treatment: If the SSA believes you haven’t pursued all reasonable treatment options, they may deny benefits. However, legitimate reasons for not following treatment—such as financial constraints, religious beliefs, or intolerable side effects—can overcome this issue.
Income Exceeding SGA Limits: Working while applying for benefits can doom your claim if your earnings exceed substantial gainful activity thresholds.
Not Meeting Duration Requirements: The SSA requires that disabilities last or be expected to last at least 12 continuous months or result in death. Conditions expected to resolve more quickly don’t qualify.
Technical Denials: Approximately 43% of initial applications in 2021 received technical denials for failing to meet non-medical requirements, such as insufficient work credits for SSDI or excess resources for SSI.
Reconsideration Stage
Administrative Law Judge Hearing
The hearing stage represents a critical turning point. At the Administrative Law Judge hearing level, approval rates jumped dramatically to 51% in 2024. This dramatic improvement reflects several factors:
- Claimants can testify about their functional limitations
- Medical experts and vocational experts provide testimony
- Attorneys present arguments and cross-examine witnesses
- ALJs can ask clarifying questions and evaluate credibility
The overall disability judge approval rate in 2024 was 58%, the highest rate since at least 2018, suggesting that the hearing stage offers genuine opportunity for success.
Geographic Variations in Approval Rates
Surprisingly, where you live significantly impacts your chances of approval. In 2024, approval rates for initial claims ranged from 34.8% in the state with the lowest approval rate to 57.4% in states with the highest rates, with just five states having initial approval rates higher than 50%.
These disparities stem from various factors including:
- Differences in state Disability Determination Services staffing and training
- Varying local practices regarding documentation requirements
- Different regional economic conditions
- Availability of medical care and documentation quality
The Transformative Impact of Legal Representation
How Attorneys Add Value Throughout the Process
Initial Application Development: While many attorneys focus on appeals, taking legal representation early offers advantages. Experienced disability attorneys understand exactly what evidence the SSA requires and how to present it effectively. They ensure medical records comprehensively document functional limitations, coordinate with treating physicians to obtain detailed opinions, and frame the claim using terminology consistent with SSA listings and requirements.
Medical Evidence Development: Attorneys work with your treating physicians to obtain Residual Functional Capacity (RFC) assessments detailing your specific limitations. An RFC form completed by your doctor might specify, for example, that you can stand only 15 minutes at a time, must alternate between sitting and standing every 30 minutes, can lift no more than 5 pounds occasionally, and need to lie down for 2-3 hours during an 8-hour workday due to chronic pain and fatigue. Such detailed restrictions often prove determinative.
Navigating the Appeals Process: After denials, attorneys guide clients through the complex appeals process, ensuring all deadlines are met. Missing a 60-day appeal deadline can mean starting the entire process over, potentially losing months or years of retroactive benefits.
Hearing Preparation and Representation: Attorneys prepare clients for ALJ hearings, explaining the types of questions to expect and how to effectively communicate limitations. During hearings, attorneys present opening statements, examine witnesses, cross-examine vocational experts, and make closing arguments highlighting evidence supporting disability.
Addressing Adverse Vocational Expert Testimony: At hearings, vocational experts (VEs) testify about jobs the ALJ might find you capable of performing. Experienced attorneys know how to cross-examine VEs effectively, asking hypothetical questions that incorporate all your limitations and challenging whether identified jobs truly exist in significant numbers or match your actual capabilities.
Current Updates Affecting Social Security Disability in 2025
Several recent developments impact disability claimants and beneficiaries.
Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)
A 2.5% COLA adjustment for disability took effect in January 2025 for SSDI recipients, while SSI recipients saw the increase in their December 31, 2024 payment. This adjustment increased the average monthly SSDI benefit from $1,542 in 2024 to $1,580 in 2025, helping beneficiaries cope with inflation’s impact on living expenses.
Increased Substantial Gainful Activity Limits
The 2025 SGA monthly earnings limit for someone with a disability other than blindness increased to $1,620 from the 2024 limit of $1,550. This means beneficiaries can earn slightly more from work attempts without jeopardizing their benefits.
Trial Work Period Adjustments
The Trial Work Period (TWP) allows SSDI beneficiaries to test their ability to work without immediately losing benefits. A trial work period month in 2025 is any month in which earnings exceed $1,160, an increase from the 2024 limit of $1,110. Beneficiaries receive nine TWP months (not necessarily consecutive) during which they can work and earn any amount while still receiving full benefits.
Student Earned Income Exclusion
Young disabled individuals attending school received good news. Students who qualify for the student earned income exclusion may work while attending school and exclude up to $2,350 from their monthly income in 2025, an increase from the 2024 monthly exclusion of $2,290.
Payroll Information Exchange Initiative
In April 2025, Social Security began using a Payroll Information Exchange (PIE) to get monthly wage information directly from Payroll Data Providers with beneficiaries’ permission. This technological advancement may reduce reporting burdens for working beneficiaries while helping the SSA detect overpayments more quickly.
Past Relevant Work Regulation Change
A significant regulatory change reduces the time period from 15 to 5 years that SSA considers when determining whether an individual’s past work is relevant for disability determinations. This modification may increase approval rates slightly by reducing the number of past jobs the SSA considers when evaluating whether you can return to previous employment or have transferable skills.
Hearing Appearance Options Expanded
Recent regulatory changes provide that claimants may appear at hearings in four ways: by agency video, by online video, by audio, or in person, with all four manners considered standard in the hearing process. This flexibility makes hearings more accessible, particularly for claimants with mobility limitations or those living far from hearing offices.
Social Security Fairness Act
The Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law on January 5, 2025, ends the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, increasing benefits for over 2.8 million people who receive non-covered pensions. This impacts certain public employees, including teachers, firefighters, and police officers who paid into pension systems instead of Social Security during portions of their careers.
Common Barriers Facing Disability Claimants
Beyond the technical challenges of navigating the disability determination process, many claimants face additional obstacles that compound their difficulties.
Financial Pressures
The application and appeals process typically spans many months or even years. The backlog of appeals cases was more than 331,000 at the end of September 2024, with an average processing time of 231 days. During this waiting period, disabled individuals struggle to meet basic needs without income, often depleting savings, borrowing from family, or facing eviction and utility shutoffs.
Lack of Disability Insurance
According to analysis of 2022 Census data, 53.7% of non-retired households (51.2 million total) did not report having disability insurance beyond Social Security coverage. Without private disability insurance to provide interim income, applicants become desperate, sometimes accepting unfavorable settlements or giving up legitimate claims due to financial pressure.
Health Insurance Gaps
SSDI beneficiaries face a two-year Medicare waiting period after disability onset before qualifying for health coverage. During this gap, obtaining necessary medical treatment and documentation becomes challenging, particularly for those without alternative health insurance. Some claimants delay or forego medical care due to cost, ironically undermining their disability claims by creating gaps in treatment.
Mental Health Stigma and Documentation Challenges
Mental health conditions present unique documentation challenges. Unlike physical conditions often verified through objective tests like MRIs or x-rays, mental impairments rely heavily on subjective symptom reports and clinical observations. Some claimants struggle to adequately articulate their mental health limitations, while others face skepticism from adjudicators less familiar with psychiatric conditions.
Language and Cultural Barriers
Non-English speaking claimants face additional hurdles navigating the complex disability system. While the SSA provides interpretation services, understanding technical legal terminology, medical concepts, and procedural requirements proves difficult. Cultural factors may also affect how individuals describe symptoms or interact with medical professionals, potentially impacting their claims.
Credibility Challenges
ALJs evaluate claimant credibility when assessing subjective symptom complaints. Factors like daily activities, medication effectiveness, and consistency between symptom complaints and medical findings all influence credibility determinations. Claimants sometimes inadvertently undermine their credibility by downplaying limitations to appear stoic or by failing to report improvement in symptoms to treating physicians.
Different Types of Disability Claims Require Tailored Approaches
Experienced disability attorneys recognize that different claim types present unique challenges requiring specialized knowledge and strategies.
Adult Disability Claims (SSDI and SSI)
Standard adult disability claims represent the majority of applications. These claims require demonstrating that impairments prevent all substantial gainful activity, not merely past relevant work. Age becomes increasingly favorable as claimants approach 50, when the SSA’s vocational grid rules make approval easier by limiting the types of work considered available.
Childhood Disability Claims (SSI for Children)
Children under 18 can qualify for SSI if they have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment causing marked and severe functional limitations lasting at least 12 months or expected to result in death. Children’s claims use different evaluation criteria than adult claims, focusing on age-appropriate functioning in six domains: acquiring and using information, attending and completing tasks, interacting and relating with others, moving about and manipulating objects, caring for themselves, and health and physical well-being.
Disabled Adult Child (DAC) Benefits
Individuals disabled before age 22 may qualify for benefits on a parent’s earnings record once that parent retires, becomes disabled, or dies. DAC benefits provide crucial support for adults with developmental disabilities or childhood-onset conditions. Establishing disability onset before age 22 proves critical, often requiring school records, pediatric medical records, and other historical documentation.
Disabled Widow(er) Benefits
Surviving spouses aged 50-60 who become disabled may qualify for benefits on a deceased spouse’s earnings record. These claims require proving both disability and the surviving spouse relationship, making marriage certificates and death certificates essential documentation.
Compassionate Allowances
The SSA maintains a Compassionate Allowances program for conditions so severe that they obviously meet disability standards. Certain cancers, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and other catastrophic conditions qualify for expedited processing, with some claims approved in days rather than months.
Veterans' Disability and Social Security
Veterans often struggle understanding the relationship between VA disability ratings and Social Security disability. These systems operate independently with different standards. A 100% VA disability rating doesn’t guarantee SSA approval, though it constitutes strong supporting evidence. Conversely, receiving Social Security disability doesn’t affect VA benefits.
Continuing Disability Reviews
After approval, beneficiaries face periodic Continuing Disability Reviews (CDRs) to ensure ongoing eligibility. The frequency depends on expected improvement—every six months for conditions expected to improve, every three years for possible improvement, or every seven years for conditions not expected to improve. Medical improvement standard protections prevent termination unless the SSA demonstrates substantial improvement in your medical condition and ability to work.
Taking Action: Steps to Strengthen Your Claim
Whether you’re considering applying for benefits or appealing a denial, several steps can improve your chances of success.
Obtain Comprehensive Medical Treatment
The single most important factor in disability claims is medical documentation. Establish regular care with appropriate specialists who can objectively document your conditions. Primary care physicians alone rarely provide sufficient evidence; specialists like orthopedists, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, or neurologists offer more persuasive opinions within their areas of expertise.
Attend all scheduled appointments and comply with prescribed treatment to the extent possible. If you cannot afford treatment, document this fact—inability to pursue treatment due to lack of financial resources can excuse non-compliance.
Maintain Detailed Symptom Journals
Document your symptoms, limitations, and how your conditions affect daily activities. Note your pain levels, fatigue, medication side effects, and functional restrictions. These contemporaneous records help your treating physicians complete RFC forms accurately and provide powerful evidence at hearings when testimony might otherwise rest on potentially unreliable memory.
Be Honest About Functional Limitations
When completing applications or testifying at hearings, resist the temptation to exaggerate or minimize limitations. Exaggeration undermines credibility and can result in outright denial. Conversely, downplaying limitations to maintain dignity or appear strong can lead adjudicators to conclude you’re not as impaired as claimed.
Describe a typical day honestly, including both what you can do and what you cannot do. If you can prepare simple meals but cannot stand long enough to cook complex dishes, say so. If you can drive short distances but cannot tolerate longer trips due to pain or mental health symptoms, explain these distinctions.
Gather Supporting Third-Party Evidence
Statements from family members, friends, former employers, or other individuals who observe your limitations provide valuable corroborating evidence. These Third-Party Function Reports should detail specific examples of how your conditions affect your functioning rather than offering general statements like “he can’t work.”
Understand the Appeals Timeline
After denials, claimants typically have 60 days to file appeals, though some circumstances allow for late appeals. Missing deadlines can prove catastrophic, potentially requiring you to file entirely new applications and losing months or years of potential back payments. Contact an attorney immediately after receiving denial notices to ensure timely appeals.
Consider Supplemental Medical Opinions
When treating physician opinions prove insufficient or unfavorable, consultative examinations arranged by the SSA often provide minimal evidence. In some cases, obtaining independent medical examinations from specialists who thoroughly review records and provide detailed RFC opinions strengthens claims significantly. While these examinations involve out-of-pocket costs, they can make the difference between approval and denial.
Why We're Committed to Representing Everyone
Disability can strike anyone, regardless of socioeconomic status, education level, professional background, or life circumstances. The common thread connecting all disabled individuals is the need for fair treatment and access to benefits the law provides.
No Disability Is Too "Minor" or "Common"
Some claimants hesitate to pursue benefits because they perceive their conditions as too common or not severe enough. Remember that disability determinations focus on functional limitations and inability to sustain employment, not diagnostic labels. Common conditions like depression, anxiety, or back pain can prove genuinely disabling when severe enough, particularly when combined with other impairments.
Mental Health Conditions Deserve Equal Recognition
Mental impairments carry persistent stigma that can affect both claimants’ willingness to pursue benefits and adjudicators’ evaluation of claims. We strongly advocate for recognition that mental health conditions can be every bit as disabling as physical impairments. A person with severe depression, debilitating anxiety, or uncontrolled bipolar disorder may be utterly unable to maintain employment, yet face skepticism in ways physical disabilities don’t encounter.
Everyone Deserves Dignity Throughout the Process
The disability determination process can feel dehumanizing. You’re repeatedly asked to catalog limitations and failures, describe your worst days, and convince skeptical strangers that you’re truly unable to work. Throughout this process, you deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
Legal representation ensures someone advocates for you, communicates with the SSA on your behalf, and shields you from some of the system’s harshness while fighting for the benefits you’ve earned through years of work and payroll tax contributions.
Financial Accessibility of Representation
Social Security disability attorneys typically work on contingency fee basis, meaning they receive payment only if you win benefits. Fees are capped at 25% of past-due benefits up to a maximum set by the SSA (currently $7,200 for most cases), and the SSA pays attorney fees directly from your back payment. This structure ensures that everyone can afford quality legal representation regardless of current financial circumstances.
The Comparative Advantage Table: Represented vs. Unrepresented Claimants
Factor | Unrepresented Claimants | Represented Claimants |
Initial Approval Rate | ~30-38% | ~40-50% (with early representation) |
Hearing Approval Rate | ~35-45% | ~55-65% |
Complete Medical Evidence | Often incomplete | Comprehensive RFC assessments obtained |
Understanding of Legal Standards | Limited knowledge of SSA requirements | Full understanding of listings and RFC criteria |
Vocational Expert Cross-Examination | Rarely effective | Strategic questioning to challenge job availability |
Appeals Timeline Management | Frequently miss deadlines | All deadlines met with proper documentation |
Benefit Amount Accuracy | May accept incorrect calculations | Ensures maximum entitled benefits |
Continuing Disability Reviews | Often struggles with CDR responses | Proper documentation maintains benefits |
Common Myths About Social Security Disability
Dispelling misconceptions helps potential applicants understand their rights and options.
Myth: “Everyone gets denied the first time, so there’s no point in trying to prepare a strong initial application.”
Reality: The overall national approval rate for SSI/SSDI is 29%, but using comprehensive documentation models results in higher approval rates because they focus on getting all necessary information in the file from the beginning. While denials are common, well-documented initial applications do get approved.
Myth: “If my doctor says I’m disabled, I’ll automatically get benefits.”
Reality: While treating physician opinions carry weight, the SSA makes the ultimate disability determination. Your doctor’s opinion must be supported by objective medical findings and consistent with evidence in your file.
Myth: “I can’t work at all while applying for disability.”
Reality: You can work while applying for benefits, but your earnings must remain below SGA limits. Some work activity, particularly unsuccessful work attempts lasting less than six months, may not affect eligibility.
Myth: “My condition isn’t in the Blue Book, so I won’t qualify.”
Reality: Many beneficiaries qualify without meeting listed impairments through the medical-vocational allowance process, demonstrating that their combination of impairments, age, education, and work experience prevents all substantial work.
Myth: “Once I’m approved, I can never work again.”
Reality: The SSA encourages return-to-work attempts through various work incentives including trial work periods, extended periods of eligibility, expedited reinstatement, and continued Medicare coverage under certain circumstances.
The Road Ahead: Your Journey to Benefits
Pursuing Social Security Disability benefits requires patience, persistence, and often professional assistance. The journey may prove long and frustrating, but for those genuinely unable to work due to disabling conditions, these benefits provide essential support.
From initial application through potential appeals to the Appeals Council or federal court, experienced disability attorneys stand with you at every stage. We gather medical evidence, develop persuasive legal arguments, prepare you for hearings, examine witnesses, and fight for every dollar of benefits to which you’re entitled.
Remember that initial denials don’t mean you don’t deserve benefits—they often reflect incomplete documentation, procedural issues, or evaluation errors. With proper representation, many initially denied claims ultimately succeed at the hearing level or beyond.
Your disability is unique to you, but you’re not alone in facing the challenges of navigating the Social Security system. Whether you have physical limitations preventing manual labor, mental health conditions making consistent attendance impossible, or any other disabling impairment, you deserve fair consideration and competent advocacy.
About The Law Offices of Oliver C. Minott
For individuals in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island, Long Island, Upstate New York, and surrounding areas facing disability that prevents them from working, The Law Offices of Oliver C. Minott provides dedicated representation throughout the Social Security Disability application and appeals process. With comprehensive understanding of both SSDI and SSI programs, including recent regulatory changes and evolving SSA policies, the firm fights to protect disabled individuals’ rights and secure the maximum benefits available under federal law. Whether you’re considering filing an initial application, facing a denial and need to pursue appeals, struggling with continuing disability reviews, or uncertain about your eligibility for benefits, The Law Offices of Oliver C. Minott stands ready to provide the experienced advocacy you need. The firm’s commitment to representing everyone means that regardless of the nature of your disability, your background, or your life circumstances, you’ll receive the same dedicated, compassionate representation focused on achieving the best possible outcome for your claim.