Video instructions and help with filling out and completing ssa work history report
Instructions and Help about ssa work history report
Hi there this is Jonathan Ginsberg I'm a social security disability attorney and today I'd like to talk to you about why your work history matters even more today than it has in the past in your Social Security disability case now if you've looked at some other videos you know I've talked a lot about work history and why that's important and specifically it's important as judges recognized if you've got a long work history that really enhances your credibility people don't stop working making forty fifty a hundred thousand dollars a year to sit at home for two years waiting for Social Security to possibly improve their case so my experience generally is again I'm a long consistent work history that's going to work on your favorite judges appreciate that but let me take it a step further I think that if you've done if you've been in a work job a work history where you've been dealing with toxins let's say environmental toxins or you've had a job where it's been very physically demanding that could be really relevant it's and it's very important that you talk about that with your attorney and with the judge and they'll give me an example I have a case that I've been working on with a client who has worked in a nail salon and if you've ever been to a nail salon the fumes are just overwhelming and in this lady's case she had worked in a nail salon for more than ten years not making a whole lot of money but because of the fumes that constant exposure to fumes she has developed both cognitive issues meaning the processing a slower she has a hard time concentrating and focusing and she also has breathing problems it's not exactly a COPD but it's kind of close it's almost on a form of asthma she's got breathing issues and it makes it very difficult for her to do very much of anything she's pretty miserable most of the time again she can't really focus and think and she is very susceptible to colds she doesn't like temperature extremes fumes dust those sort of things really affect her quite negatively now in a vacuum I will tell you that people with cognitive deficit that's not really tied to anything organic in other words not a getting hit on the head it can be very difficult to win disability because judges here cognitive deficits and it's very subjective and again if there's a reason the judge might like it but for the most part people can walk in and say I can't think I can't focus and concentrate and again it's very hard to say whether they're telling the truth or not or to what degree they're they have problems and the same thing with asthma or breathing issues it's one of these things that yes there are tests for it but people can you know they can try harder or