This comprehensive and compassionate book covers both SSDI and SSI, shows you how to prove a disability, and explains how your age, education, and work experience affect your chances. Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability.

Learn how to:

• find the disability criteria for your medical condition

• prove the severity of your disability

• appeal if you’re denied benefits

• work part time while keeping your benefits

• prepare for a Continuing Disability Review

• and more.

Plus, this book is packed with filled-in samples of all the forms you’ll need, including the SSDI and SSI disability applications.

This new edition includes:

• a new discussion of getting disability for long COVID

• explanations of Social Security’s updated medical listings for digestive and skin disorders.